Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Well, now, I reckon, I ought to tell you a story
at a little office that handles things nobody else. Will
you know? A supernatural super unnatural haunting sexes. The whole
list is rather long, and we don't have near enough
daylight for that. What you need to know is this
ain't no script here. We make it up as we go, music, sounds, etc.
It's all produced for you live like magic and it
being a scary story and all I'm assuming it will
have all the things scary stories do. But I'm just
guessing here because of it being improvised and all all
I know is with this cast, well, well it's probably
gonna be brutal, violent and have enough moral decay to
make our therapists quit. You got one of those, right, good,
So use your brain. Okay, it's gonna be scary, strange,
dumb as hell. Oh off you.
Speaker 3: I think I just discovered I'm part of a bootstrap paradox,
So that that's kind of strange, Like it would I
look any different?
Speaker 4: Do you pull yourself up by a thing that's already
supporting you so you can't do it? Kind of paradox?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I guess a paradox is like, by nature,
pretty impossible, right, right, So this one's extra impossible because
I opened the door. Do you understand me? I mean,
I knew I opened the door, but I didn't know
that I.
Speaker 5: Opened the door. I'm I'm be honest. I'm not in
timing for the wing.
Speaker 4: Well, what's the moither?
Speaker 6: You didn't feel any sensation or anything after saying the oath?
Speaker 4: It's just a little tingle?
Speaker 6: Is no tingle? Is maybe the eureka moment a door opening?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've gotta be honest. I feel kind of enlightened.
That's the word i'd use.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well right, I don't seem too bad.
Speaker 3: It could be worse. It could be worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be a lot worse.
Speaker 5: I could feel real stupid.
Speaker 4: I could I don't, could feel like mud.
Speaker 3: No spell out backwards clear as.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that will be a good describer the
whole paradox thing you were.
Speaker 3: Mentioned in who else wants to do the oath saying?
Is it just me? I can just be the guinea pig.
That's cool, out of mind.
Speaker 5: We do appreciate it.
Speaker 6: In fact, actually I don't think I said thank you
enough for you know, going into your kitchen, getting the
light bulb and helping with that experiment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well this was a light bulb moment.
Speaker 5: So just I don't have any real steak in it,
in particular, what was the experiment? Anyway, we took the
light bulb, left my ice We're.
Speaker 3: Going to see if your ice cream melts.
Speaker 6: See the properties of this world get translated to the
ice cream. Then we're going to see if it's there.
When Gus returns to the kitchen, is it even there?
Was it just a projection of his mind? Or did
we interact with the physical realm which we came from.
Speaker 3: This is the real important questions.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, we're diving right.
Speaker 7: How are we doing good?
Speaker 5: Doing good?
Speaker 4: Just fine? Is that the door is that?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: I don't know the door shut. Why don't you go
open it and we'll find.
Speaker 6: Out, Gus, why don't you open the door? You've been
doing pretty much.
Speaker 7: You're sworn in.
Speaker 2: Somebody opened the door.
Speaker 3: I'll open the door. That's cool. I can do that.
Speaker 2: Just make sure to like stand a little bit back
when you do it, just in case.
Speaker 3: You know, so this is actually a risk because I
was joking.
Speaker 2: But everything is a risk.
Speaker 6: Hello, sweat, Hold on, wait, wait, wait before you open
the door. What do you mean there's a risk?
Speaker 2: Well, you never know where the door is going to
lead or what it's going to open up to.
Speaker 4: I mean there's nobody.
Speaker 3: Hang on a second. We're debating the safety of this
one second.
Speaker 6: Have you had the situations where you've opened the door
and it wasn't safe?
Speaker 5: Old?
Speaker 2: Uh, Well, I guess it's sort of debatable, but yes,
like I've opened the door and there's been nothing there
except for like and howl and wind, and then I'm okay, yeah,
I think that's a good idea. It's usually someone who
needs our help.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think it sounds like it's I need your help.
Speaker 8: It's me Barkley, Oglethorpe. It's a good time, and you're here.
I got an incredible case, and well, I mean I
didn't need your help, but I saw the door, so
I figured, you know you and Candy Girl and Ponytail
and the ride.
Speaker 7: Of course, where the hell is Rod? I could use
your help?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: Brokenil, it's not Well, that's a whole long story at Barkley.
But why don't I introduce you to the the new
dumb office, and I'll introduce you. Uh, why why don't
y'all introduce yourself. This is Barkley, Barkley.
Speaker 8: This is my name, is Barkley Thorpe. I'm a monster hunter.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's a fine profession.
Speaker 8: Doesn't exactly pay the bills, but I know somebody's got
to do it.
Speaker 7: How about it? Were my manors and they use her.
Speaker 6: Nice to meet you, Jim Britchie and.
Speaker 7: Oh Jim, fine American name, and they use her.
Speaker 8: Harry Harry, another fine American name, and.
Speaker 7: Use shirt.
Speaker 3: I'm gus.
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, it's fine American names here.
Speaker 4: Honey, Australian, a catchy, Oh.
Speaker 8: Another fine American name. Wonderful to meet you all. I
guess you guys are new employees of this office, so
to speak, more or.
Speaker 2: Less more or less three hours ago, depending on your
passage of time.
Speaker 8: Obies. That's the word, right, that's the word. That's the word.
Speaker 7: I know people who are new to the jib nubies.
Speaker 8: Oh right, So I like your hat? Oh me too,
We've got a lot in common. Those teeth on the
hat were that? Was that from a monster that you hunted? Yeah,
well let's just say yes, it's one of these things.
I don't know how much you guys have learned yet
or how much you know, but it's like better if
I don't say its name. Oh yeah, they know that,
not if i'd say the name of that creature in
my you know.
Speaker 7: One, it's teeth back hat is made of.
Speaker 4: Its skin, right, you can't say the spacies of it
or nothing like that.
Speaker 8: It's just it's not so much as species as like.
Speaker 7: An entity, right right.
Speaker 8: It could come back eventually, but while I'm in joying
it's teeth, and it just can't while I of it.
Speaker 5: Can we help a monster?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you said you had some information.
Speaker 8: Take a look at this newspaper that I would personally read.
But I know, you know, you could probably read it
better than me right now because I've already read it
al dirt.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. They just put it on the table there.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm putting it on the table. Check it out,
hollow band.
Speaker 2: Did that work for y'all?
Speaker 5: Right? I can see he's just fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can see it. I love this comic strip
that's got an orange cat on it.
Speaker 4: That one's mine? That was that was that was mine?
Speaker 8: That I please don't his name for God's sakes.
Speaker 6: Oh he doesn't like mondays. I have some nice sh
and coming. What a funny little comic? Sorry, go ahead?
What were we? The Harrold Bent led you Yeah.
Speaker 5: Work quoted at hollow band mine at the voices heard underground?
Speaker 8: Oh yes yes, and the tears out. There's a mine
over there. It's over in the ozary know my hont
and their reports and this mine of scary voices crying
out kind of howling in the night.
Speaker 7: What does it say?
Speaker 2: Does somebody mind reading out? I don't start it once?
Speaker 7: Do you do?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 7: Are you hiring illiterate people? What is happening here?
Speaker 6: I didn't want to be rude. I mean who wants to? I?
Speaker 7: Did you.
Speaker 2: After you?
Speaker 5: Operations?
Speaker 7: After you?
Speaker 5: Late Monday, after several night shift workers reported hearing what
they described as a primal howl through the ventilation sh
According to site manager Clinton Mercer, the crew were performing
routine excavation or the new Mercer Bends Marina project. When
the sound began. It wasn't coyotes or a cat set
a heavily heavy equipment operator Bo Ramsey. It was low,
like a weird whale. You could feel. It's more than
hear it.
Speaker 7: It's an America.
Speaker 5: The company initially attributed the incident to pressure the pipes,
but workers refused to return underground. We're reviewing the acoustic
data and taking safety, taking safety seriously, Marser told the Ledger.
No one's being forced back until we know what's causing it.
Local local folklore ties the site to the nineteen fifty
Hollow Bend flood, in which twelve minus drowned after a
rising river water clatched the old shaft.
Speaker 7: Oh I didn't even get to that part. That's horrific.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty bad. Are we sure it's you know,
super nature?
Speaker 4: Sounds like, well, I mean a creature.
Speaker 8: I'm sure you've heard of the ozark howler traveling large
percized creature. Oh well, they are commonly well reported. I myself,
being from that general area, fought them a number of times.
Speaker 7: They're horns.
Speaker 8: The ones that have horns are very desired by some
for you know, magical components. Some make them into talismans.
Some say they again in creature, sexual prowess, the usual things.
Speaker 7: But they're very large creatures.
Speaker 8: They have a tendency to come up behind people, and
they're often described as howling. Some people say it sounds
like a like almost a human was making a dog sound,
or a dog was making a human sound.
Speaker 7: But they're about the size of.
Speaker 8: A really big bear, big teeth, a huge pause, absolutely steak,
as you might imagine as well.
Speaker 2: What we're waiting for sure it ain't a cat.
Speaker 8: It might be I don't know, cats are like howling around.
It might be injured. All right, all right, Yeah, I
was loaded up, I got drove into town my RV.
I got on my equipment ready to take out some hoururs,
you know, probably a maximum of five before I have
really need help. Which and then I saw the doors.
Now I'm a little bit worried that it might be
a lot more than five. Oh dear, you guys have guns.
Speaker 6: Oh I do, but I don't think it's gonna stop
anything that size.
Speaker 4: Clarifying here real quick, anything that they're they're loud, they
howl all that, but they sneak up on you.
Speaker 8: Well, they show up behind people. Yeah, and they start
making noise while they chase people. A lot of times
they get reports. They show up when they're kind of
like i'd the end of their driveway pretty close at home.
Our part of it is and part of it is
they like terrorizing people before they eat them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you just stare it down, make yourself
like a bear, it'll leave you be.
Speaker 8: I know, it will get mad that you're ruining it's
fun and just kill you and he right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 6: So it's just a malevolent trickster.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's one way. Like some people just call them
a dick. Yeah, but not to not to their face.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 8: If they're in your face. You're in a heap of
trouble if you're not prepared. So are you guys prepared?
Speaker 2: Well, Barkley, it's so funny that you say that this
would actually be their first case.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been here for about three hours faver take maybe.
I mean that's fine. I think they're ready. I think
you guys are ready.
Speaker 3: You're ready, right, I'm sorry? Are we killing?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What we do them?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And he's if it's taking up residents there, he's just
gonna keep killing people until someone scares it off. You
could ward it off, but it'll just go somewhere else.
I mean, if we want if I don't know, if
you guys are some kind of peace snakes when it
comes down monsters about what you could make some wards
and I could follow it and kill it in the
next town if it makes you feel better.
Speaker 3: So exercise or exterminate r two options the.
Speaker 7: Kind of shoe along?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I mean it depends on the situation. I'd
like to stress that it might not always be uh,
exterminate or exercise.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it could also be collect But.
Speaker 2: This instance, if it is in fact a how then yeah,
I would suggest maybe exterminate would be my siggestion.
Speaker 7: They're pretty vicious, Yeah, not really how much reason?
Speaker 3: It's like aphe because you say like not to like
name the thing, right, so this is like that's like
a euphemistic name.
Speaker 2: One of its Yep, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, understood species name.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's there's a multiple level. Like I said, some advantlers, horns,
rud whatever you care to call it, Some don't, Some
are larger, some have worse breadth than others.
Speaker 7: It depans.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh, the how to be filled with this? I
I've never fought now, honest, I would like not to
have to fight a month's subpect. I'm assuming you have
some kind of magic that can make this easy easier.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. That's easy.
Speaker 7: But I do have a gun.
Speaker 2: I have a rifle. It's in the It's in the
chief's office, my office back there. If you want to
grab it. Anybody's willing to use it, if you know
how Barkley probably has a bunch of guns in his yeah,
oh where. I also have a bonnet, but that's mine,
so I'll be using that, and I do I do
have some magic at my disposal. I don't know if
it's going to make it easy or easy or even
again if it isn't a howler. I've never encountered one
of those before, so we'll have to kind of take it,
take it as we go. But step one would be
to investigate and confirm. Right, you all know to go
to this cave.
Speaker 8: I'm very familiar with the noises they make, and if
it needs be, we'll have to delve into the caves
plunk until we find our destination.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I wouldn't maybe necessarily recommend spelunking, but you know,
I do believe in.
Speaker 8: You always lure it out with bait as well. Who's
the fastest runner.
Speaker 2: I think they're too new to be bait Barkley.
Speaker 7: If anyone will, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: But I don't think we need to car But I
just like I said, this is their first case, so
maybe we rather than throw them into the deep end.
Speaker 8: I understand I've taken on many apprentices before. By this point,
I've realized all the mistakes I've made, so I understand.
Speaker 5: Berkley, if you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you could say after the first few
you just stop counting.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, how many have survived?
Speaker 7: There's Clive, Clive is live?
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 8: Cool one said, No, I mean some people they don't
follow instructions. Now, you guys look like the smart type
that alloways listen to the instructions of the chief.
Speaker 7: Are you the chief at all?
Speaker 3: Oh? I'm gonna follow every instruction I get, and then
sure I am Borkley.
Speaker 6: Oh and my experience following instructions doesn't always guarantee survival.
Speaker 7: Well, you know what it's really.
Speaker 8: It sounds scary. He's only been here three hours. Yeah,
sounds scary. But we'll take all precautions. If it's just
a howl or.
Speaker 7: It won't be a problem a good learning experience, that's
probably a lot of doors.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, so tell us what what
what else? You know about Howler's before we go, Does
anybody need anything like food?
Speaker 3: What? What?
Speaker 2: What time is it out there?
Speaker 4: Barkley?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 8: For you, it's you know, I'd say it's about like
three o'clock. Okay, so we got just time to get
some supplies. We can do a stake out.
Speaker 6: I guess more important, the more important question I have
is when is it outside?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Uh, Tuesday? It's uh no, Wednesday, Wednesday?
Speaker 4: What year.
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty five? Mm hm oh no, so Barkley. Yeah, oh,
you got one of those situations.
Speaker 2: I think with like three of them. Actually, yeah, it
might be a little bit of a shock. Is there
anything they should know immediately before walking out that door
into small town America in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 8: No noything? No, no, well only you got it. I
don't think you'll have to see it. But I was
trying to use the actually door showed up at the
at the restroom of a gas station right outside of
the town.
Speaker 7: Huh, get myself a couple of twinkies.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was getting in my r V after acquiring
a couple of twinkies, and then there was I saw
I shame along the door.
Speaker 4: M M.
Speaker 5: But we can probably get something.
Speaker 7: Like a dozen of them, you're gonna add, Yeah, I'll
try one.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: You pop tart?
Speaker 2: It's sorry? So what pop tart?
Speaker 4: Worse four?
Speaker 7: You pop tart?
Speaker 4: Think of it as a stuffed stuffed pastriot kind.
Speaker 2: Is its hard shell like the pop was.
Speaker 7: Soft like a cake.
Speaker 2: I'll try I'll try.
Speaker 4: One of those that don't expire none. The joke as
they'll live as long as cockroaches in the apocalypse.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, all right, well, yeah I bought. I bought
one hundred of it. I'm about ten years ago. I
only just ran out.
Speaker 6: I don't have any of the banana cream ones.
Speaker 7: I just grab whatever they had on the shell.
Speaker 4: Maybe those ain't been around for a long time, Jim, whoa,
I mean, what else would they fill them with?
Speaker 6: Not banana cream.
Speaker 7: And plain American cream?
Speaker 4: Synthetics, syntheticnthetic motor oil.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, more like.
Speaker 4: Chemically enhanced dairy.
Speaker 7: What a science.
Speaker 6: It sounds like our k rations.
Speaker 7: You know that may not be that far off enhanced.
That sounds.
Speaker 2: Magazine.
Speaker 3: I'm loath to pivot from this riven in conversation. Does
this creature have any weaknesses that we can use?
Speaker 8: Extremely violent trauma to its body with weapons, right, Yeah,
that that's that's.
Speaker 3: Not the wiliest rattles in my weakness.
Speaker 8: I mean there are other things it doesn't like. You know,
if you burn sage, it kind of just will leave
you alone. But how you're supposed to kill it if
it runs away?
Speaker 6: Does a predators? Does it have any prey that it
specifically likes people? People strictly in a pinch?
Speaker 7: If it can't find the people, uh, then it will
go for deer.
Speaker 8: Or there's a horrible incident out a local zoo where
it just it must be the primate thing because it
tore apart a bunch of poor baboons. They put up
a good fight, but this thing, you know, they're just normal,
normal nature babboons, not any kind of supernatural thing, but
mostly yeah, people, and they're on a pinch and he
just about anything large.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, you mentioned wards, is that these.
Speaker 2: Barkley I'm so glad you arrived when you did. I
get to you know, watch y'all work for the first time.
Speaker 7: This is great. Not a I'm not a big word user,
I am.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll do know more about that is generally symbols
you carve into places right, and that's just whatever it is,
it doesn't sit right. It gets under their skin and
makes them crawl, and they got to get the hell
out of there, yeah, or trap them.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: The way that warden works, though, is we kind of
have to really know what kind of creature it is
before we slap the war down, because otherwise it can
work or not work at all, or you know, grab
only a limb or you know whatever, and that would
be bad. So we really need to figure out for
sure what it is. But if it is a hail
or what kind is that classified under?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I don't know technically I haven't found
in a book, but one time, what's that?
Speaker 2: Like a bear?
Speaker 7: It's big like a bear? Yeah, okay, it's kind of
dog like, very shaggy. It's never big pine, so it ain't.
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 2: It's never that, so I don't it's not.
Speaker 8: It might be canine or erg seine, probably not giant vulpine,
but okay, it's definitely as it's never lupine.
Speaker 7: You'd be surprised.
Speaker 4: You have any sensitive heroing smells that sort of thing.
Speaker 7: It does have a very what do you call it?
Speaker 8: A sense of hearing? You know, it sends out as
how and then it can sometimes hear people react to it.
You go, oh my god, what was that. So if
you're far away and I hear that, he can do it.
I'm pretty good hearing myself.
Speaker 7: But they definitely got me beat all.
Speaker 2: Right, Barkley, Oh, I thought, sorry, Harry, you finish yours.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, my paw, he would he would occasionally
have to deal with bears out in the in the woods,
and you can't a lot. You know, you have some
bears you'd hear like the hay bear, and you'd clap
and be all real loud and big, and it kind
of startled them. Well, maybe this air horn or something
loud that might mess with its hearing or cause it
some distress.
Speaker 7: If it does.
Speaker 4: Charging think of a loud loud noise, loud loud, sharp noise.
Speaker 2: No, but I'm thinking like a fog horn that's huge,
goes on a boat.
Speaker 4: Sure, something loud that if it's sensitive, it might stun
it for a minute or so. If it's extraordinary and
it's hear.
Speaker 3: It, Yeah, aarhorn's kind of like a scream in a can.
Speaker 5: Well, then there you go, what.
Speaker 7: That sounds like? Magic?
Speaker 8: Well, where they played all the goddamn time in the morning.
It wakes me right up.
Speaker 4: With technology and magic. You mentioned that before that kind
of seem similar times. Just think of that way.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I can, I can, I can do that. Okay, Now, Barkley,
hold your tongue for a second. I'm gonna hold mine
as well. I want to know what you all would
do first step of your first case.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll look at it that Jim, what I would do?
Speaker 2: What's the first step I want to I mean your yeah,
you're detectives here, dumb?
Speaker 7: What do you think?
Speaker 6: I work on histories, and you know this just sounds
like pest control, if I'll be quite honest. What's there
to uncover? I mean, do we know for sure that
it's the Howler? Should we look for evidence that it is?
Maybe it's something else.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it could just be a bear mis identified.
That actually would be a huge problem. So I guess
that is.
Speaker 6: What I like to do when I first start a case.
Is I listened to it, I visualize it, and I
like to sketch it. And so far from what I've
heard from the description from Berkley, this is what we're
going to be dealing with. Hold on a second, is
that is that about right?
Speaker 7: To give me? Ah?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Right, horns sometimes sometimes it can have horns. Sometimes I
can't add horns.
Speaker 7: The things.
Speaker 2: Oh my child talent.
Speaker 7: Is pretty glad, that's what we're looking for. Ye, this
is not just smell it?
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, Well we're sure this isn't a bear.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it is.
Speaker 8: Sometimes it's either like an ugly bear for somebody's you know,
fat right wiler that got out and got two fat
canches living in the woods, either one of those.
Speaker 7: You know, it could be real.
Speaker 2: That happens sometimes too.
Speaker 3: I mean, the door wasn't here unless there was a purpose.
Speaker 2: Right now, you're thinking, that's right. That's how often I
believe in kids. Mit, do you know what kis meat is?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Perfect, I believe that strongly. So the fact that that well,
it's the idea that you know, everything happens for a reason.
We're not going to use the sea word. Don't use
the S word. Okay, the app.
Speaker 3: Right Eric time person what mhmm, it's serendipity ish you
know in that vein that.
Speaker 7: It does?
Speaker 3: I know, but I was using a different word. O
help describe the first one.
Speaker 6: Well, you know the funny thing about serendipity, it could
be starting with C if it was two c's stacked together,
but one sea was facing the different way.
Speaker 5: That's just what an S is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have cameras something for sillance. That would be
my first step.
Speaker 2: It's a really good point. Why don't we check the
disks and see if there's anything.
Speaker 8: Not vision you get not vision goggles. What the hill
is that your goggles you put on your over your
eyes and you could see in the dark.
Speaker 6: One thing flight.
Speaker 2: There's one thing on the desk. It is like a
little portable what looks to be an audio player or recorder.
Somebody can choose which desk it's on, but there's only
one and that's the only thing on the desks at
the moment.
Speaker 5: All right, well the hell is that my desk? It's
Orgia recorder.
Speaker 3: Oh they don't come in here picturing like a dictaphone or.
Speaker 4: Kind of recorder.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that is, like I'm imagining,
I don't know, something a little kind.
Speaker 4: Of like like this size, look like cassette recorder.
Speaker 7: For like anything. Yeah, just like yeah, like one of those.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what what people would put for the
sasquads on occasion. I'd heard they put that up on
a tree and listen out for it and see if
it passes. Yeah right, okay, so if that records audio,
we could I'm sorry, Oh, sure, shouldn't do. I should
make sure that it works before we go out, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 7: We should.
Speaker 2: Who wants to record a message?
Speaker 5: Uh, I'm sure this is what I usually do when
Mike testing? All right, quiz quiz, quiz quiz quizzical test
test test testing one T three.
Speaker 2: Definitely thought you were going to say something else. Just then,
all right, don't worry about it more.
Speaker 4: I'm not happy to be enlightened.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I thought it's just going to say musical, because
quizzical musical rhyme.
Speaker 2: Oh just the same thing, yeah, same thing. You read
my mind, Jim read my mind.
Speaker 5: Slet rhyme.
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, Well, well if that's what we want
to do in terms of investigating, I say we do that. Sorry, Barkley,
you cannot hold your tongue anymore. I'm sorry. I just
want to see. Sorry, I just wanted to see what
they would come up with, understand what they would do
first without our help, you know, that's what I'm supposed
to do.
Speaker 7: I think I understand.
Speaker 2: Can see what they decide to do and follow along
and don't let them die.
Speaker 3: I hope we can engage with the public as well,
right because oh yeah, we can.
Speaker 2: Do interviews, we can talk to people. We can Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7: Names in that newspaper there.
Speaker 2: Should we look all right, Berkley for for whatever when
it is out there.
Speaker 7: I'm not the best judge. Y'all look very handsome and
lovely to me, okay.
Speaker 3: Per if he's fine?
Speaker 5: If we should be good? Right?
Speaker 2: We all always like we should.
Speaker 3: Should we dressed like you? Is the style at the moment?
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, you're a nos ark, so you're
good with danim I wouldn't worry about that. Perfect you know,
I'd say, I have spare things, but you probably don't
want to wear them.
Speaker 2: And well, we almost exactly don't want to fit. Yeah,
we have got some T shirts. No no, oh no,
it's all right. If we're okay, we're okay, Well we'll
go out like this. Is there anything else that you
all want to bring with you?
Speaker 7: This is not a test.
Speaker 2: Were certainly is a test.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish I had some cameras we could
set up or something. I'm used to watching them.
Speaker 2: Well, you could check the supply closet.
Speaker 4: I think I will.
Speaker 2: Okay, that seems you want to roll to see if.
Speaker 7: You get lucky.
Speaker 4: I think I do. Let's see, I'm not that's first
roll of the day. Yes, indeed, all right, let's give
it a try. That would be a three only.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, what what kind of camera do you find?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I was looking for some of them, small little act
maybe maybe not a go pro, but but something similar
to that. But you could kind of put up on
a tree here there. Okay, all right, something I could potentially.
Speaker 2: And you roll the three?
Speaker 7: Do you want just one?
Speaker 4: I'd want a couple set up, a couple of spots.
Week give you three?
Speaker 2: I'll do you want three go pros? Or do you
want one go pro?
Speaker 7: I am too?
Speaker 2: Something else?
Speaker 4: I mean three and three of them all the same
is just fine, the same format. You can hook it
up to the phone and pulling over to Now, something
like that.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a sneaky little ship. Harry, And I'm gonna
ask you to clarify. They have night vision? What else
do they have?
Speaker 4: Well, they'd have a direct feed, so like a live
feed you can watch. That would be what I'd want
for surveillance, but.
Speaker 2: That would require someone's phone.
Speaker 7: Exactly which okay?
Speaker 4: Which which does have?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 4: Exactly okay? And then something called a night vision was
go pro tend to.
Speaker 2: Have and it has the ability to record to a
memory card just in case for whatever reason they do
they usually have we're not working, okay, all right?
Speaker 7: Perfect?
Speaker 6: You know, I think I want to grab a spare jacket,
some gloves, maybe a spare hat.
Speaker 7: There we go.
Speaker 2: Now we're thinking go ahead and use the closet or.
Speaker 7: Get a little chili out there to night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I might as well just bring a full set
of extra clothes. Actually, I'm just going to bring a
full set. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Well that's a fifty six gym, so I'm going to say,
you don't really find a full set, but you do
find something because the door was already opened by Harry,
so the supply closet is there. But it's up to
you what you find. But it's maybe not a full
set of what you were thinking.
Speaker 6: I can't really. It's sort of like a burlap sack
that somebody used to haul potatoes.
Speaker 2: Oh that was for our that was for our bonding day.
Speaker 3: Mhm uh.
Speaker 2: Put one of those on and you run around in
a field.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a sack race one of those.
Speaker 2: Okay, there should be a hole in the bottom of
Rod stuck his foot right through there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a long story.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, I'll take it anyways, Sure, why not?
And then is this a ball some sort of No,
it's a Oh it's a balloon. Yeah, it's a it's
got a yeah. Sure, I'll take one of these.
Speaker 2: Okay, what was this for a Oh?
Speaker 6: I guess you had a party or something. You see
a bunch of balloons here?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have no idea what that is or when
it's from or wins. But take whatever you need. It's
there for a reason. As long as it says supply
on the top in the back on the back wall,
then you're good to go. If it doesn't have supply
on it, you're in the wrong. You're in the like warehouse.
Don't take any of those things.
Speaker 4: That's why I shouldn't have taken them.
Speaker 7: Pop tarts, magical arts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that may have done something to us. I'm sure
we'll find out. Yeah, does anybody else want anything.
Speaker 7: Before we go.
Speaker 2: I'm not judging or nothing, just curious as to your approach.
Speaker 5: I think I'm okay, I have and I'm going to
go through the plastic. I saw the shopping bags from
when I walked in initially the rushed through and to
pull out a small like wooding case.
Speaker 7: Like this big.
Speaker 5: I think I have my mini tool kit and I
think that's all. I okay, be useful with anyway.
Speaker 4: They make sure to bring your phone though, I'll need that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have that on me of times.
Speaker 2: And Harry, what are you bringing with you? The other?
Speaker 1: The go pro?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Other than do you have anything else on you?
Speaker 4: I got my leg of dies okay, perfect, I ain't
leaving without them, okay.
Speaker 2: And what about you guess.
Speaker 7: I've got my.
Speaker 3: Olaroid camera perfect and uh my handicam okay perfect.
Speaker 2: Now are those important items listed on your character sheets?
You have three equipment slots that you can bring. The
GoPro can count in one, Harry, all right, So you
can have in your availability many many, many things. But
when you go out on a mission, you can only
bring three things. So GoPros can count as one, your
dis count as another. To make sure you only got
for three. Now are we ready?
Speaker 3: Jim?
Speaker 2: You're bringing your gun and your potato sack in this
balloon and the balloon Okay, that'll come in handy. I
believe in my bones that's probably in terral to the case. Somehow.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 6: It's the other thing I could find, So I guess
I'll take it.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: All right, anything you give a photo everybody before we
had out, you know, I'll commemorate the first job.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea. Have you seen the have you
seen the board in my office? Have you guys been
in my office yet? There's like a briefly there's a
whole wall in there with a with a with a
corkboard in there where we can pin stuff and I
got a bunch of pins and thread and and we
can just for each case we can use it so
we can put all the picture up there. Even though
that's not technically part of the mystery, but it would
be good.
Speaker 3: Ansolved to a case is absolutely part of the case.
Speaker 7: Okay, so yeah, if you like, well I think you should. Okay,
Now all you should get is your first case.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, first case with everybody here, Okay, where should
we stand.
Speaker 7: That is a camera.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have a stand or nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean it can have a stands.
Speaker 7: The okay cool?
Speaker 3: Huh do you know how to use one?
Speaker 7: You hit the button right? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Pretty much?
Speaker 7: Turn out? Do you shake it when it comes out?
Or you don't shake it?
Speaker 3: Are you not meant to shake it? Actually kind of
meant to put it place down and not touch it
for like a minute and a huh?
Speaker 4: Yeah the song was wrong?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 6: So what happens when you shake the camera?
Speaker 5: Does that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I feel like that would be a bad idea.
Speaker 4: What do I know?
Speaker 3: Shake the photos when that come out?
Speaker 7: You know, we show them? We should show them.
Speaker 3: I mean it's fun though, it's fun to shake it.
I will admit like it is. It's a I understand why.
It's an instinct.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, well where should you stand? Yeah? I agree
with that, Jim shaking.
Speaker 3: Is there is the logo and like any of like
the we have like the I mean there's.
Speaker 4: A big old picture frame with the what is that
is that a rug? I can't actually tail that and
looked at it too carefully.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's a bunch of hanging things. You know
what I would do? We could stand right in front
of the window. It's like perfect frosty glass, and it
has the logo more it has the logo on it,
and then it does have d U M on it.
So people walking outside could see that from the window,
but it is frosty glass. Not that I would know
that word. I don't think that would be brought by
the front door. So behind us, so if you're looking
at the office.
Speaker 4: It's literally right from the window.
Speaker 2: Got it right in the view behind us, from the
perspective of the art.
Speaker 3: Right, that sounds good?
Speaker 2: Okay, sure, all right, So what do we do? We
just stand here and hold our breath for thirty six.
Speaker 4: A smile, you know, holds a breath.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, come on, get over here, come on, okay.
Speaker 5: Hold on, let me get ready for this portrait.
Speaker 2: You gotta pop that collar, Jim. All detectives have pop collars.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna pop my collar. I don't think it's
gonna work.
Speaker 2: It's well, you could, all right, large, I know a guy, Okay,
I think so okay, and we just stand here and say.
Speaker 7: Count of three. Okay, say Gary, no, we can't do that. Barkley.
That power.
Speaker 2: That is the name of power. And we are not
saying that name in this office. I know that power will,
but that's still we're not We're not doing that. Okay, okay,
anything on a cannon.
Speaker 8: Three just make a noise that sounds like so you
one two three pop tart? Hey there you go, Okay,
look at there.
Speaker 2: It's perfect. Wow, holy ship. It just comes down at
the end there like that. Okay, Oh, why don't we
just oh yeah, why don't we just leave that here? Then? Yeah, okay, I'll.
Speaker 3: Put it on my desk.
Speaker 5: Do you want to leave it? Will it work here?
Speaker 4: That's a fair point. Changing time things don't change and
very develops. It must just sit like that.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should bring it with us then.
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it developing? It is not?
Speaker 5: Actually, Oh well would you look at that? That'll help perfect?
Speaker 3: Well, this is this is really bad for my whole deal.
Speaker 4: Guy. If this does.
Speaker 2: It looks like you have to step outside.
Speaker 4: How do you cook food in the kitchen? Net? Can
you cook food and the cochen?
Speaker 2: Well, here's an idea. Why don't you go step in
the room again? Try that, like, open the door and.
Speaker 4: Go in there. You say, step into the broom. And
I was thinking myself, which room?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know I have an open mind, Harry.
Speaker 4: Fair fair enough, fair enough, all right, Yeah, I opened
the door open.
Speaker 7: It's a kitchen roll for me.
Speaker 4: I seem to love this room door closet. See if
I love it enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have a tin shift if you haven't
rolled already, just because you've.
Speaker 4: Changed it.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, it didn't come through for me.
Speaker 4: Thirty four.
Speaker 7: Yeah, wouldn't be fourteen.
Speaker 2: It would have been pretty dang close. It would have
been twenty four. Okay, So you open the door and
what what is on the other side, because it ain't
the kitchen.
Speaker 4: It ain't the kitchen. Oh it's well, it's a kitchen net,
which means it's just it's just a sink. It's a
sink and like a count of next to it with
a cabinet. But they know how I played. No, nothing
like what you'd see in a college dorm.
Speaker 2: Well that will, but try step in there, see what happens.
Speaker 4: I'll reach for the photo and see if anything happens
to it in here.
Speaker 2: One more role.
Speaker 4: Oh it's gonna do that. They have it lifting, but
I don't want to touch no weights today.
Speaker 2: Think you have some bullshit for this, don't you?
Speaker 4: For like, look, yeah, it would be a five, but
that ain't gonna do none here, and that's more for
gambling specifically.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being honest of course. All right, so
now the photo does not change, although.
Speaker 4: I guess it does say it hinge is purely on chance,
which I suppose this would be purely changed, but it
wouldn't have changed nothing.
Speaker 7: I would.
Speaker 2: I would accept that. I don't think it's technically purely chanced.
But I know that, Harry, you think it's purely chance
right now?
Speaker 4: Well, absolutely I do, and based on what we keep
running into.
Speaker 2: Okay, so no, it does not change. That's weird.
Speaker 4: Well hm, I'll see if I can cook something.
Speaker 6: So does that prove the theory that things that are
generated in this are brought into this office take with
them the properties of this office?
Speaker 7: Maybe something to write down, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: I just want you guys to know that don't worry
about taking a while to get ready, because it's about
the time we get there, it's killed some people, don't
we ever approve, we won't even need to investigate.
Speaker 2: Probably we should probably go. However, Barkley, need I remind
you that it's fine if we take our time getting
ready is we'll walk out that door and it'll be
whatever time it needs to be for us. Maybe hopefully
maybe we should go.
Speaker 3: Now going to take your photo too, but now it
feels really superfluous.
Speaker 7: And you're bringing your camera. Maybe you take me a
picture you're holding up the dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want to picture you before this is
over right?
Speaker 7: Okay, oh god, what I don't know.
Speaker 2: They just felt like, I don't know an omen you know,
like that's something you say when something terrible is about
to happen.
Speaker 4: Though, well, they said, but that good oldman's a thing too. Now, yeah,
that's true, because if he wants to take a picture
before it's over, then it could be right at the
end before we head back in. That would close the
case and close until back.
Speaker 2: You know what, It's fine. I think it was just
a feeling, just butterflies in my stomach. It'll be fine.
Everybody has what they need. I feel like this is
like a field trip. Okay, door, Yeah, did everybody pay?
Because boy, I'm telling you, well, I guess we're going
to twenty twenty five, so hopefully it's all right. But man,
sometimes you go out that door and you really wish
you had gone first.
Speaker 4: I suppose this gas station bathroom my mind, but that's okay.
Speaker 8: Plenty of wilderness as well. There's nothing more natural and
taking a leak in the middle of nature, right, Okay.
Speaker 6: We're going to be leaving through a gas station bathroom.
There's no way we're doing this without it being awkward,
which people are going to make. People are going to
walk out of a restroom.
Speaker 2: We're going to go one at a time, right.
Speaker 7: There before a clown car. Allow me after you eggs
hit the door. Okay, who's next?
Speaker 5: I'll get quickly.
Speaker 4: Okay, if you, if you, if you won't go for
by all means yeah, I'm.
Speaker 5: Quickly following to see yeah, okay, hearing twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, so everybody is going to roll then a
soul as you walk out that door.
Speaker 7: No shift, just for me. It's a later yep.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: For me since I can't see again, you don't.
Speaker 2: Need to roll.
Speaker 7: Oh good, okay, I caught you with that eleven Oh
fuck yeah, damn.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a charged success. I'm happy about that.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, Guss, but I see what that is.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that is not great. That's one hundred. That's
the number other worldly reckoning. So that's like the worst
that you could do. So that's great. What else do
we have is that in eighty nine coming from gym? Okay,
all right, out of forty five and you hit a
forty five? Okay, so really the only ones that make
or a kachee and Gus and I can't wait to
find out what that is all about. But we don't
get to know now.
Speaker 3: So as we were, first rolls are thirty three and
my lost one's gonna be one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't say last like that. Who knows?
Speaker 7: You'll be fine? Don't die what out the picture?
Speaker 2: Don't die without taking my picture?
Speaker 7: Taking my picture?
Speaker 4: There was a promise and break the.
Speaker 7: Hammer in his hand.
Speaker 2: Okay, we are outside now, would you like to Barkley
describe what it looks like here where you're from. What
do we say summer?
Speaker 8: It's summer, yeah, I think so. Okay, it's been a
little brisk lately and does tend to get cold at night.
Speaker 7: Okay. However, because we are in the mountainous regions, it's
a lot of woods, just a lot of green, lot
of trees. There's just a long kind of boring two
lane high road that's going by. It's just outside this town.
Speaker 8: And the gas station is you know, it's not beat up,
it's nothing special, and I don't know what a special
gas station would be like, but it's pretty typical. Maybe
a sit goo, maybe a shell or whatever it is.
You know, it's got a little mini martin side. There's
probably like three pumps. There's maybe one guy filling up.
There's a couple of people inside. There's one guy sitting
in his car staring at everybody coming out of the bathroom.
And then in the parking lot is a very you know,
a normal size recreational vehicle which belongs to me, except
you know, pretty normal in all ways, except on the
side there is an airbrush maybe i'd call it even
a mural that features a bunch of different wolves and
different positions, strangely howling, some looking directly at you, looking
right into your soul, another one looking at the moon.
There's about three of them on there. But it's pretty
beautiful and natural scene. There's nothing it's pretty non descript.
Is that from the painting and the people coming out
of the bathroom.
Speaker 7: Is this is this?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 7: Yours yep? Yep.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've seen that on a shirt once
it's a little warm.
Speaker 7: I have to look for that.
Speaker 8: I don't get on the line much, and I don't
go much to store unless they're shilling things to hunt monsters.
Speaker 7: But come on in, come on in.
Speaker 8: There's plenty of room. If there's like a knife on
the chairs of the just you can just move it
onto the table. Any jars, be very careful because there's
probably stuff we might need, you know, greedy ins and
things to scare off things, or just stuff I'm gonna
make for dinner. And if you found out, Twinkie, feel
free to help yourself.
Speaker 6: Any of these jars we shouldn't be opening. That jar
is glowing green.
Speaker 8: Don't open any jar. Some of them we may throw later,
but don't open any of them right now.
Speaker 2: What is that is that coast law?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 8: It kind of came with the vehicle. I don't know
long how it's been here. You could take it if
you like.
Speaker 6: At that point, I feel compelled to take that jar
of coals law, Well.
Speaker 2: Then you definitely should, Jim. That is a that is
accused me.
Speaker 7: That is a sign.
Speaker 2: That is what we call an otherworldly sign let's not
go there.
Speaker 6: I don't know why I wanted. It looks like it's
been in there for a while, looks older than any There's.
Speaker 4: A few colors in there that ain't normally in coast
law think. Yeah, I ain't no carrot okay.
Speaker 8: And the jar is kind of foggy, which is strange,
like it fogs up like something in there is breathing
like a terrarium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a little civilization in there, more likely monkey,
says a kid.
Speaker 2: You think that I was doing that to us? You
know that we're in some cosmic jar.
Speaker 4: Oh, that kind of like a dast sort of thing,
like a what a d is like?
Speaker 3: You know, there's just you know, holes poked in the
night sky so we can breathe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3: I've never thought about that, not once.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 8: I can't say I have okay, great or just outside
of town, right, So I don't know if you want
to head into town or do we go directly to
the mine. It looks like it is about the three
thirty maybe alumst. Four o'clock, so we do have some
time before sundown if we want to, said some cameras up.
Speaker 4: I was going to say Okay, set up cameras, then
go and do interview. Is that way we've got the
surveillance up and running.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I look like I was gonna say something,
but then I wait and I look over at y'all
to see maybe what your instinct is first? Okay, perfect
cameras first, and then interviews. I can handle that.
Speaker 8: I got a map over here. Someone want I sit
up here and be a navigator?
Speaker 5: Don't you hope I can go maps as?
Speaker 7: But no, no, no, I don't have my phone.
Speaker 4: That might be up to you. Oh now this is
gonna be fun a little more familiar with map quiz personally,
I caught you.
Speaker 2: You go ahead and roll for me. You can have
a ten shift.
Speaker 5: Or to speak in mind? Is this is my magic?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: That is correct? Okay, that is an eighty eight. That
is an omen. Okay, So that doesn't mean that it's
not working your phone. This was to see if your
phone was working in head service. Uh what do you
think your omen is? It could still be working and
it could also not be working. It's up to you.
But again I'll stress this multiple times as we play,
just because it is a failure and I'm using air
quotes for those listening. Doesn't mean that you don't succeed
at the thing. It just means it comes at a cost,
so or you can choose to fail with no cost.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna choose to fail. Right as I
do open up Google Maps and there's no reception.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, I do believe your phone is cracked though, right,
we had talked about that. Originally there was a crack
in the screen.
Speaker 5: I remember, but I'm going to say, yes, okay, I
think there was.
Speaker 2: But also here was that Barkley?
Speaker 7: Is that a cat? But it is sunda like.
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 2: It sounded like a bird. I'm sure it was a bird.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 7: It's fine.
Speaker 4: I think my ears don't work. I didn't hear none,
and I was surprised, I miss.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I've been keeping my ears open for something
that sounds like a guy making dog noise?
Speaker 5: Is what you said?
Speaker 2: Low?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Right, you know it's not really good?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I just am curious, Kashi, do you think
that your phone would be able to do the go
profing with this role? Uh?
Speaker 5: Some omens, I say no. I think maybe because I
think Peter, because I don't have signal. I need to
download the app for the go person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, if that makes sense, right, And we
don't have any local WiFi in the boonies here.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know what, never mind, Yeah, I can be
the navigator. Just yeah, give me the map.
Speaker 2: It's just you do old fashioned mappery. That's great.
Speaker 8: Probly jazz. That was throw We're so tricky for me
to fold up. But it's just just in a glove compartment,
just kind of crumpled up in there.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, No, it's really just you want and I go.
Speaker 7: We're right a point where we are and then point
where we're trying to giggle.
Speaker 3: It's not important. Sorry, Hollow Bend. That's the town's name, right,
that's what the paper say.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're going to the mine. It's it's a little
bit outside of it, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Or is it?
Speaker 7: Is it right next to the town. Okay, it's close,
it's just not we have to go a little bit
around the other side of town.
Speaker 5: I think sure, okay, okay, yeah, I think it should
be easy enough.
Speaker 3: Give us some fancy looking cameras there, Harry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these are a go pro is. Essentially, it's a
small little video camera. They local recording. You can hook
them up to a phone and they'll display what they
want to see.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 7: That was that.
Speaker 4: That's what we're planning on doing with the catchies.
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 2: That's that's the that's the van that I'm seeing through
this little box here.
Speaker 7: The what now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: The van?
Speaker 4: The right the vehicle we're in right now?
Speaker 3: You have it on?
Speaker 7: You have it on right?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got showing you one hand.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you can.
Speaker 2: You can point that anywhere and it'll show you.
Speaker 4: That's right. Okay, it's a lot fade. Also a record, okay,
perfect an incredible yeah, yeah, very handy. That's why I
wanted them.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's good thinking there, Harry.
Speaker 4: Thank you. It's my job normally to watch these sorts
of things, so you might as well make myself useful.
Speaker 7: M hm that's right.
Speaker 8: Okay, do we where do I just sit down, Barkley head,
just sit down, you sit, and then I transport you
to the destination.
Speaker 4: Okay what they call it horseless carriage?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'm familiar with that. And I'll sit down
in one of the seats or maybe I have to
probably make room don't, I, Barklay, I have to clear
some things off and very.
Speaker 8: Some magazines and a book by Harold Handwagon you don't
want to read, but just just move things around.
Speaker 7: Just don't mess with too much.
Speaker 2: Okay, I won't, and then I'll sit down.
Speaker 4: I'm standing behind Akachi doing that that thing you see
the father usually in the AUV kind of leaning forward
looking looking over the shoulder between the two the driver
and the passenger. So that's where I am.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's telling me a couple of turns, broably, just
go around the town, will be easier for traffic and
get there sooner.
Speaker 7: But I just you're navigational guidings.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, yeah, you're from twenty twenty five. So I'm
gonna say there's no issue here in getting to where
we need to go. Uh I would like though, So sorry, Barkley,
where are you taking us? Exactly? Like right outside of the.
Speaker 7: Martin to mind?
Speaker 8: So it's either I guess the decision is we drive
all the way up there do we park lily outside?
Now it's probably getting a little it's a plenty of
son right so yeah, okay, all right, so we can
I mean, I can get it as close as possible
if you want otherwise, I'll be hauling us through the
woods for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is important. Where are we getting right there
to install the cameras or are we walking a little bit?
What do we want to do?
Speaker 4: I think I'll say maybe go there first. We can
put some couple of the cameras up there, and then
on our white back stop and pull on near the
woods entrance toward the vines. So get a few different
vantage points.
Speaker 2: Clever little shit. Okay, yep, that sounds good. Okay, So
then in that case, as everybody gets out of the
recreational vehicle, I'm gonna need one more role for you,
and this can be whatever your medical statu is. No
shifts for right now the underdogs, Yeah no, just saying
if anybody's lucky, also, not to break your immersion. But
can y'all hear better now?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, I definitely can hear a little bit now. Okay, Yeah,
all right, I think I got whatever was plug my ears.
Speaker 2: Okay, so do we have that's everybody right? Okay? In Barkley,
I'll roll for you since you can't see.
Speaker 7: I have a plus five shift in my hearing.
Speaker 2: If it's hearing yep, okay, it'll work, and yours is
body I'm assuming, yep, okay, okay, it sounds like what
we're hearing right now. Woods in the ozarks.
Speaker 8: Keep your ears open. If you notice any pungent musky
scents too. That was that you didn't have any fan
I am in the r V. Please make note of it.
Say something as well. Anybody here good at like because
we got to look for you. There's some footprints around
or something.
Speaker 4: Like that as well that I'm pretty capable of. I
ain't no track of, but I got I keep bine
things that tend to hide. That's kind of thing the
devils in my details.
Speaker 6: Okay, pretty good eye for the minute details as well.
Can take a look around, see if I can.
Speaker 8: Find large creatures. Maybe they've eaten something. Maybe if they've
finished eating something and they've defecated anything like that. It
could just be normal animal. But just we'll have a
look at it. Okay, who's setting the cameras up?
Speaker 4: I can do that. I know how to work these things,
but I'll set them up. We're right now, not right
up at the mines. We're more at the entrance of
the kind of the woods hitting open to the clearing
of that. Yeah, we'll get one here and then I'll
do a couple when we're a father them.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you have no problem setting up a security camera.
This is not something you have to roll for.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then when we get to the entrance of the minds,
you're able to set them up as well. Would you
be able to tell me kind of like the angles that.
Speaker 4: You're imagining, absolutely, the one the in the woods I'm
having kind of give an overview of the minds.
Speaker 2: Themselves, So kind of the entrance okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: A panoramic kind of idea, just get her thing one
facing into the mines. If there's one main mind entrance,
were you all.
Speaker 2: Able to see the newspaper let me just write okay, yes,
so that is kind of like it looks like a
traditional hollow cave entrance there. So okay, there's that one
entrance to the mine. Yeah, and very overgrown by the
way it looks like. Okay, maybe I should describe it
a little bit Jesus. Okay, So when we get here,
it's very clear that there are some there's construction going
on here. There are maybe there's like a crew that's
trying to do something. It's right along the river. And
then when we when you actually look down a little
bit further, you'll see the entrance to the mine and
it is just that one overgrown like cave entrance, very
old school like this mine was definitely maybe popular or
kind of very active in the mid eighteen hundreds, so
there's not a lot really there. You will notice, however,
there are no support structures to keep Yeah, so that
definitely strikes you later folk in time as all. So
that's all of you that would be a little dangerous. Maybe, Jim,
maybe they didn't really do the supports and things like
that too much later, but it does strike you as
a little odd. So this has been abandoned for quite
some time.
Speaker 3: The project, the development they're doing, is it related to
the mind itself or is it just like in this locale.
Speaker 2: It's a great question, Parkley.
Speaker 7: Do we know you have that? I only know what's
in the article.
Speaker 3: Says it's the Mercer Bend Marina project. So maybe the
mine is just the area that they're working in.
Speaker 4: Wow, it.
Speaker 8: Was flooding, I say, it was flooded a long time ago,
so maybe it's connected under your camp be too far
away from the river, but it must be close by.
Speaker 5: Do we know what sort of mine this was? Yeah,
so it's going to do the same question. Do you
know what?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Questions? I don't rule, still looking for.
Speaker 6: Was this by any chance of silver mine?
Speaker 7: Can they?
Speaker 6: I want to go and check. I'm not an expert geologist,
but I know silver and the raw when I see it.
Let's see if I can't take a look at the
cave and see if I can deduce what was being
mined here.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now we're going to do some rules for those
who are doing their investigating, and I'm so excited about it. Okay, Jim,
why don't you go ahead and roll I think you've
got an ability for this, don't you.
Speaker 6: Let's see here in particular that I see other.
Speaker 2: Than just okay, hold on, let me look at your sheet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it's devil in details. There
ain't no role for that now specifically.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't see any here listed.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 4: It might be if you roll four investigating and you
get a piece of information no matter what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Devil in the Details is definitely the
one I was thinking of.
Speaker 7: That sounds a bad ride. Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go with that one, okay, and I'll put
these in here for you, Jim for next time. Okay,
So why don't you go ahead? You get to use
this ability here, but we're gonna roll for something extra.
So go ahead and make your roll and this will
be in mind and you have a tin.
Speaker 7: Shift at the moment.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, that's twenty six for those listening,
or I picking number one through three, Jim, ah two.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 2: As you are investigating this mine, it is in fact
silver deposit. You will also find claw marks on one
of the trees or maybe multiple. That's a pretty good role.
Speaker 6: It's like it is silver. That's interesting. Now if this
creature hmm, Barkley, is this creature by any means? You
said it was an entity? Meaning is it spirit and
creature that's simultaneously. What exactly is that?
Speaker 8: I don't believe so, but sometimes I don't predict. I've
killed a couple of them. The only thing I ever
noticed an alder. I don't indeed correct me if I'm wrong,
but I did. I did it stab one. It really
did a number on it. When I have a knife
that has a blade of iron. So I don't know silver,
silver's used. It's never loopine, so it's probably not bad.
But other things, things that are a little too strong
for my stuff. So, but that would generally drive them away.
So that kind of I would assume that cancels out
that it could be that type of creature.
Speaker 6: So what you're saying silver usually does drive them away.
Speaker 7: They haveing a version of certain certain creatures.
Speaker 6: Yeah, certain creatures, but not not not the howler, No, no,
not the howlers.
Speaker 3: It iron.
Speaker 4: Iron, fair things, cold iron.
Speaker 7: On that demon.
Speaker 8: Now, I of course I did stay the hell out
of it, so it could have just been that. But
it seemed to really hurt it. It did hold quite loud.
Speaker 6: Have you ever tried to attack it with silver before?
Have you ever?
Speaker 8: It's a tough thing to say. I've shot certainly shot
them with silver bullets. It just seemed to hurt. They
didn't They didn't like smoke or screech or kind of
you know, evaporate or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Anything special about the weapon other than the fact it
was made of iron, to your.
Speaker 7: Knowledge or oh, I mean it is a pretty special weapon. Yeah, like, oh, well,
it's made it's meant for.
Speaker 8: It's meant for killing creatures that do not like iron,
like the what you call them faith demonic.
Speaker 7: Anything like that in that line. Yeah, yeah, so is
it like it's called it's called the hedge Blow. I
didn't know it, but yeah, when I got it, they
told me to name it. Feels I feel kind of
lame when I'm saying it.
Speaker 4: But do you have that with you?
Speaker 7: By chance?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 7: I do, just strapped around to my waist.
Speaker 3: Okay, awesome, I'm super glad to know that.
Speaker 7: Hmm.
Speaker 4: Interesting that was funded one more camera which I wanted
to actually put. Jim, did you just looking back a
couple of minutes when you were investigating, did you happen
to walk into the entrance of the mine to figure
out that it was silver?
Speaker 6: I didn't go any further than what I couldn't see wherever,
you know, there was light available just to investigate, so
not very deep. I'd say about three meters in all right, did.
Speaker 4: It happen to and this can be for uh, did
it happen to bend it all like go in and
then take a hard ride or left? Or is it
just kind of right on down the narrow?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry you're talking about the mine.
Speaker 4: It's the mine itself.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Jim, what I could gather It looked dead
on straight right, all right, slight decline. I would say
about like a like a ten degree decline.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, then about the point where it starts to decline,
So that might be what you's winning about three meters
and started seeing. That's why i'd say what six meters
in and so is probably when it started to decline. Yeah, yeah,
just about so gif a take. That's where I'll set
up the last camera aiming down.
Speaker 2: Holy shit.
Speaker 7: Okay, so you go down into that.
Speaker 2: So you're going to do one at the entrance to
the woods kind of where we're going to be, Yeah,
and then you're going to do one at the showing
the entrance, and then you're doing one slightly inside about
six you said.
Speaker 4: Meters about six meters right when it starts to decline
and go down. I want that one facing in so
that the night vision can pick up movement down.
Speaker 2: That all right, And the other one, I'm assuming, and
this is just common sense, right, has the where the
tree that Jim found with the marks on it. You're
I'm imagining that your other camera has that tree in
line and the entrance to the just so we're all cleared,
like absolutely, yes, yes, yeah, okay, all right, perfect.
Speaker 4: If it's if it's a territorial mark that's usually frequented
by print, it is okay.
Speaker 2: Now, who else is doing any other setup in this
steakout print or any other investigating type of things happening here?
You are up muted, I so.
Speaker 3: Am if any if anything is you know, brought up
or pointed out. I think, like you know, if if
Jim was to bring up the Clo monks, for instance,
that's something that I would take a.
Speaker 2: Photograph a photograph, okay, perfect. So from this point forward
we can just say how many hold on though, this
would be fun. I think how many photographs are in
an old polaroid set eighteen twenty?
Speaker 3: That's a really good question.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think that each time we do a mission,
you only have that many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. Oh
my god, I'll find that number for you. Okay, I'll
find that number for you. In yep, beyond that, that's
how many you have.
Speaker 2: So mark off one because you took a group photo,
so you've got one less or two less, now I guess, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay. And other than that, you know, I
think that's the only thing that was like significant that
would be worse, you know, documenting. Okay, other than that,
Gus is actually more focused on the surrounds. So I'm
actually more scanning like the horizon or you know, any
overlooks or ridge lines. So okay, well, I suppose like
it's like with some detective focuses, you know, on details,
Gus is doing bigger picture for the most part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, why don't you go in and rule for
me as well?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 2: All right, nice to be your mind, I believe. Unless yes,
I will allow you to roll either one your body
like you're literally using your eyeballs, or you can do mind,
which is your eyeballs with your brain.
Speaker 5: I have a.
Speaker 7: I have what was that for? Yep?
Speaker 3: Okay, oh five percent shift on yes, rolls, relying on
my on my my chosen sense spotting movement at your visual.
Speaker 2: Perception, right, Okay, it's the one I am a little
scatter brain sometimes, which we all know. I'm going to
forget that, but that's really important today, so please remind
me that you have that.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, in the context of I'm looking for
anything weird or any you know, any breaks in the
pattern of f Basically.
Speaker 2: You go ahead and make that roll then and it'll
last for the whole scene.
Speaker 7: Eighteen.
Speaker 2: That's the success gus. Okay, ye pick a number one
or two.
Speaker 5: Two house.
Speaker 2: Something about the river draws you to it?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 7: Do you think.
Speaker 3: An unusual color in the water, something.
Speaker 4: Some kind of.
Speaker 3: Unusual like tinge to the water, like there's runoff into
the river, but it doesn't see Yeah, it doesn't seem
natural or it seems like it's indicative of a yeah
something Okay, on tour, this.
Speaker 2: Is a haunted experience. Do you know anything about the howler?
By chance? Actually you didn't do any Google of fooing
or anything.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2: You do actually see something near the water. It is
like it's like a foam, white foam, but it's not
quite right. There's something wrong with it. I don't know
how much time you spend around rivers does but there's
something wrong with whatever whatever this is.
Speaker 3: So it's like foaming, like there's lack.
Speaker 2: Foaming, which can be normal around a river. But uh,
there's something not quite right about this, either in the
consistency or why don't we go ahead and say the color, Uh,
the color would look instead of the normal like white
or sometimes even like a little bit of yellow. It's
got a bit of green in here.
Speaker 5: Okay, Instead.
Speaker 3: Does it seem corrosive or like it's.
Speaker 2: Oh that's such a good question. Just roll a flat D.
Speaker 5: One hundred for me.
Speaker 3: Or corrosion?
Speaker 5: You got it.
Speaker 3: Is? Actually there's a button for this, like you.
Speaker 2: It is seven, So it doesn't seem like it's corrosive.
It seems like it seems like it's run off from somewhere.
M like coloring or die.
Speaker 4: Gotcha?
Speaker 3: I do have an answer for you, by the way, Yeah,
ten photos to a cartridge.
Speaker 2: So you have eight left, and why don't you go
ahead in your on your sheet, that'll be like your
AMMO for this item, so you can just do eight
out of ten for now.
Speaker 5: You got it right?
Speaker 7: Okay? Anybody?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, go ahead, I just wanted to.
Speaker 3: Bring I'm gonna take a photo of that, and then
I'm gonna say, uh, mister Barkley, is this significant?
Speaker 8: Don't let me tell you a look. Hmm, that's weird.
I'm not glad sure what this is is that your
did you notice only weird plant? Life down there.
Speaker 3: No, I guess I'm curious do these things this might
be an odd question. Do these things hibernate or like
hold up for long periods of time, or.
Speaker 2: Like a question, are they active at not or doing
the day they're in our journal?
Speaker 8: Okay, damn, but to come out at night of that,
I mean during the day if they haven't eaton for
a while, so I mean, just keep listening out. They
will usually make a lot of noise before they try
to attack, so we should have a warning. But you
never know if it's something off or if it isn't
a hell or Okay, yeah, but I don't know. I
doubt I'm not familiar with why they said the coloration
here would be lack this.
Speaker 3: I guess my my running theory at the moment is
that whatever this is is disturbed by this development project.
That seems like a fair guess, right, Definitely think you're right.
So I wonder if it's the sound because you said
it's sort of you know, it uses sound and then
responds to sound, or is it that the actual construction
has struck a nerve, so to speak, with the art?
Speaker 4: Whatever this is what you got there, Gus.
Speaker 2: That a photo I got it's a photograph that you
just took.
Speaker 7: What is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where were you down by the river?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let me see that.
Speaker 3: I even though I've already said you shouldn't do it,
I kind of instinctively shake the polaroid a bit because
it's just so fun. But I yeah, I uh, I yah.
Step over to you when I show you the I
show you the photo of the phone.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, I'm gonna need your alls help here for this.
Sometimes I'm going to have you roll, and if you
roll really well, I am going to answer your questions
and character. But I need you to know right now,
Alder does not know everything. Okay. I don't always have
the answers right, So just keep that in mind. I'll
remind you every once in a while.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 2: But just because you roll well, it doesn't mean that
the answer is going to be the correct answer specifically
coming from my mouth. Okay, okay, okay. In this case,
it is though, I think, what the hell is this? Okay?
You might be onto something with the whole you know,
iron bit, Oh goold yeah, look at this?
Speaker 7: You see it's green.
Speaker 2: I think that's why it's green here and look where's
that end? Yeah, where does that end down there?
Speaker 4: Or does it?
Speaker 2: Does it stay around the like by near the cave,
or does it go all the way down the river?
Do you know, guys, how far down did you go?
Speaker 3: I just found this patch here, but I'm gonna cost
my glance down the river. Do I see it? Do
I see it running along the length of the river?
Speaker 2: Is it just this one's kind of like stop kind
of somewhere near this spot? It seems central in this
that's interesting. Okay, well this is an important spot. Let's
not forget this is the camera see this spot?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the old of you one? Most definitely it does.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, then I think that's important. It's a good,
good catch. Gus, that's really good.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Anyone else want to do anything in this stakeout?
Speaker 3: Got you?
Speaker 2: I know you'd to slip away for a second. Do
you need us to fill you in?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 5: I think of the basics.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so basics or actually someone else should do
it because there's the GM. I might accidentally just highlight
the important parts.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, someone who's very attentive to detail. Maybe they're there. Ay,
good to that feeling.
Speaker 6: Well, so far we wanted to investigate the cave to
see what sort of mine. It was deduced that it
was a silver mine. And on top of that, we've
found the claw marks on the adjacent trees. Furthermore, I
think you've already heard the discovery of the green residue
in the river. That's as far as we've gotten up
until now.
Speaker 5: Okay, and what the green residue? What's that? Do you
have any any idea what that is? Well?
Speaker 2: I think that some some form of reaction between Fay
like being and the water, I would suppose, or something
that's around here. Sometimes usually see that kind of change
in color when there is some type of a like
creature around. That's weird because I don't think.
Speaker 8: All there's not a Fay like creature. I don't think,
although I think I just really stabbed it hard to me,
I've always known him to be in a little I
read about it more. You know, they are supernatural, but
they are more animalistic than something that might be considered
fay or demand maybe demonic.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting though, because Jim did say trickster, and
I kind of that's interesting because that is very how
many times have I said that word? The word two?
It's very you know what like and I make a
gesture like flapping wings with my hands.
Speaker 5: Hixis I think we should count how many times you
said I just like to be.
Speaker 2: A little careful, you know, I don't like to invoke
things if I can help it.
Speaker 4: How much time has to pass in between those those phrases,
like the way now? Or is that we say it?
Speaker 2: I think so usually? I mean it's not I haven't
tried really. I mean, we can run an experiment science
if you like.
Speaker 4: But so am I gathering right that game thinking this
is some it's not all. It might be something.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it could there's it possibly could be
something else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we get a load of these. I'm sorry, go ahead, No,
it's fine. Do these pick see like creatures? Do they
react with just water?
Speaker 2: I would imagine soon do Because that's like a whole
wide variety, like a genius. Is that what it's called?
Speaker 7: Genius? Genius?
Speaker 2: Thank you Barkley. Yeah, so it's like a whole variety
of creatures that fall under that umbrella.
Speaker 7: So some might.
Speaker 4: Oh you're thinking then that the Halla might be under
that genius.
Speaker 6: It might not be the Howler at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying it might be something else
entirely here.
Speaker 6: I have an idea then to test that theory. Okay,
so the howlor is aggressive towards humans. They eat humans,
as far as I understand, that's their primary diet.
Speaker 2: Jim, if you suggest bait, I swear I think that's
too I think we're too I think that's too much
for a first case.
Speaker 6: You don't think I should well not off ring one
of US's bait.
Speaker 2: No, okay, well no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6: You see, I've got this potato sack, and what I'm
thinking is I can go there are a bunch of
pine needles over there, can stuff the potato sack with
pine needles, and I'll go ahead and take my jacket off.
I'll put the jacket over potato. That's a great idea, exactly.
And then I'll blow up the balloon and I'll put
my hat on top of it so look like there's
a head, and it's kind of it leaned up against
the tree where the camera is so we can get
the angle.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a great idea catch that I
did not have because I'm not as quick as you.
Speaker 7: Holy shit, that's great.
Speaker 2: We should do that can you see it on, like,
just turn it on so that it goes over and
over and over again.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's like a convincing, you know, like a
cry for help, or just a regular conversation if it's hunting.
It's just I don't want to hear something that sounds normal.
The distress wouldn't happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from Jim, you could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could do something like that. We could do
just a normal conversation. We could do help. I'm out
here in the woods, alone.
Speaker 3: Alone, vulnerable.
Speaker 4: How smarter they normally? They got got an inflict, They
understand words.
Speaker 7: I think they're just reacting to a sensory input.
Speaker 5: All right. That my question here is but it seems
like we're leaning towards it not being a holler.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't want to I don't want to
say that. But I'm just saying it's possible that it
could not be. That's all I'm saying. The evidence looks
like it could be something else. Also, although those uh,
those marks on that tree are a little.
Speaker 4: Let's get a load of let I'm gonna look at
those a little more more closely.
Speaker 7: I think you go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and make a roll, Sir, Harry or anybody else
who wants to investigate.
Speaker 4: Would would that be would that still be my my overackins?
Speaker 7: Dad?
Speaker 4: Would that be more mind?
Speaker 7: In this case?
Speaker 2: I think it's mind in this case I do.
Speaker 4: That's that's fair, and I do also have devil in
the details.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that one here, and are you just have
level one on that correct? Okay?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is when examining an item or space
you gain an additional detail that others would miss, like age, quality, workmanship,
or a flaw.
Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead, that's a five of success.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, Harry.
Speaker 4: Okay, I told you I'm lucky.
Speaker 2: Really good. Last time I need your help, Harry, because
you're not an animal person. Was Okay, these are too
thin and close together to be a bear.
Speaker 4: That's what I was. I was looking for specifically, something
like that, if it was a bear or not. So
if it's too too small to bear Barkley, Yes, sir,
if you check this out, that was a bear part
of you?
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, it's probably more mountain lion. Right.
Speaker 4: That's way too small for what you would describe.
Speaker 8: It then, and definitely most likely of a of a
hawlor would be considerably larger than this.
Speaker 4: You're writing higher up too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if it generally, if it was.
Speaker 8: Kind of sharpening its nails or market some territory or
chasing something up a tree, it would be I'd say,
about like four feet higher up at the very least.
Speaker 6: Interesting.
Speaker 4: So I don't think if they'se a related mind you,
because this could.
Speaker 2: Just be say they could just be a cat for crossake.
Speaker 7: Probably you could.
Speaker 4: Could be a mountain lion.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: But then with the was there any scat or anything around?
That would be another thing to check for. If there ain't,
that makes me think, not a line a mountain lion.
Speaker 5: I say the spot Gus took a picture of. Yeah, yes,
So as I checked this residue, the river's floating, right,
it sure is? Yeah? Sure, So the resident should have
either diluted or long been swept away with the current
of the river to see there's anything persistent there.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and make a roll. Do you have
any extra bullshit to help you with this?
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 2: Okay, then go ahead and make your role. I will
say though, that you can have a five shift from
the fact that Gus pointed it out.
Speaker 5: Okay, no failure.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a Nandi c X. Okay, do you want
to win anyway at an exchange?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Why not? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: What exactly were you looking for?
Speaker 7: Just more information on lear?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so the fact that from what order said, it's
the water and some pixie like creature has reacted with
the water. If that was the case, I feel like
it feels like it would have been the reaction the
green regig would have been swept away by the river
right now. Okay, either it was very recent or there's
something bay or picked you like still in that that's
continuing that reaction for the green REGI still remained.
Speaker 2: How are you going to determine? I mean, it's it's
definitely clear that the residue should have everything you said
is true, it should have moved down the river and
it hasn't. But how are you going to determine if
it's like supernatural or not? Are you looking for like
a pocket of Oh?
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm looking for I don't even know
if I'm looking for anything seper natural. I'm like, am
I seeing like I you said to face and my
heart's like a pixie wing? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, river beds, Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's causing the continuous reaction to the water.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't see nothing like that. I think. I think
what I will say with this failure, and also so
I don't ruin your life later in the first case,
is that we're going to say that you know that
this doesn't make sense. This should have absolutely But you
can say however, Akachi would know. I mean, there's no pool,
there's no swirling water underneath that's keeping it in place.
It should be going on down the river, but it
seems to be centralized to this location for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: It was crouched down by the spot. Doesn't make dance.
It should be gone by now. It should have been
swept down the river a long while ago. It seems
like it's just thatttled here am I I'm not crazy?
Doesn't make sense, right, Hey a catchy, you're not crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weird ship.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's good to notice these sort of things. Something
is strange. It doesn't seem right now, you know, it's
not just like, well that's weird. If you think, well
it's weird on yep, yep, remember that feeling. Well that's weird.
Speaker 3: Name And I ask, is the construction site here like
can we see the construction side business.
Speaker 2: You can see signs of construction. It looks like they're
trying to do like it's going to say an aqueduct,
but it looks like they're building something on top of
this space here and they're digging up. They're digging around
the river.
Speaker 5: Got sha yep.
Speaker 2: But is it like they were getting ready to go
into the mine and have stopped. There's still some equipment
littered at the entrance to.
Speaker 3: The mine, so the actual work they're going to do
is still inside the mine itself.
Speaker 2: Yes, it looks like they were trying to do something
and then stopped.
Speaker 3: Is there any like mining equipment like leftover? Or is
is it like a fenced off area.
Speaker 2: Or is it we are in a fenced off area,
but you know it's it's going to small town, so
they don't really put up a bunch of fence stuff.
They just expect that you're not going to be an idiot.
So we it's like theyre might be signs or construction,
but there's no big fenced off area like like you
might be thinking. There's like a zone maybe with tape,
but that's it and it's probably broken in parts, but
it's clear they're doing work all around in this area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is it to the level that there's like, you know,
like is it like a foreman's office like in theory.
Speaker 2: I think we saw that down the road a little bit,
Like they're working here, but just a little ways down
where maybe we pop rvy. They've got a couple of
little pop up offices and things, some like.
Speaker 3: A temporary temporary unit, temporary building sort of sort of things.
Speaker 2: Yep, one or two i'd say, drop off the back
of a truck. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. You mentioned the name of the of a manager
and a foreman in the newspaper article too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a mercer, same name as the project itself.
Speaker 6: Right, people in town might know more about the history
of what happened on here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well we if we're set up here, we could go
in jick, you know, we can interview people around town.
But it's up to you all. We can also just
sit here and experiment or do some mage whatever.
Speaker 3: I think talking to people is a good point of
call for Aye.
Speaker 2: It's usually my approach is we.
Speaker 5: I think so too.
Speaker 6: We still want to do this dummy idea. I mean
I I could set that up pretty quickly. I know
how to make a pretty convincing dummy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think my gut instinct anyway, is that we do
the interviews and when we come back here, maybe just
before you know, sunset, that we set the dummy up
then when we can like observe it more directly.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, we do have the we do have the cameras.
Is we could check the day after.
Speaker 3: Do you want to set that here with the goal
that we catch footage of this thing savaging this and
we're like far away from it, which is good because
then we don't have to be near it, and then we.
Speaker 5: Know what it is, hopefully.
Speaker 4: Predator it might avoid us if we're here at the
same time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if it's a looking for people, it's gonna smell people,
and it's gonna smell all of us. It'd be better
if we leave this here for a long time so
it knows that it's here. And if you wanted to
do the voice recording, Kachat, I think that's a good idea.
We'll go ahead and record something, have that on loop
and then it now we get the smell, the sight,
and the sound might attract whatever it is that's out here,
and then we'll catch it on camera to confirm what
it is.
Speaker 7: You have any mit, Barkley, I have a wok.
Speaker 2: Do you have any meat?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: Stay sure?
Speaker 7: Sure that we could just leave?
Speaker 8: I mean it might recognize the smell. But if they're hungry, yeah,
I can find something and take out a junk in
my figh. No, No, I'm sure the meat down there.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm gonna be honest. I'm sorry if over so,
I haven't showered in like four days. I've been, you know,
planning on taking a bath when I got home, which
then wasn't my home because I opened the door and
then everybody's you know, and then it's the office. But
this jacket is pretty rank. I'm not gonna lie even
I can smell it.
Speaker 3: Say anything, yeah, Jim, because I wasn't sure if that
was a good time period thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, something used a word.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's a big deal.
Speaker 6: But I can go ahead and take the jacket off,
put it over the potato sack. Stuff it full of
pine needles, put the balloon on top, put my hat there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no need for meat then might mess up the experiment. Okay,
let's do it.
Speaker 3: Well, go ahead, Just one other question are we now
we're now not certain if this is what we thought
it was originally.
Speaker 2: I think it could be either way. But yeah, we
do have some evidence saying it might not be what
we thought it was, that's all.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, like heavy tracks or signs that they or
something was dragged in the cave or anything like that
doesn't mean it's not. But that would it makes me
a little bit suspicious that it isn't.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, and those words that you mentioned, they'll only
work if we know exactly what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: I mean, I could put up a couple of different types,
but one, if it's if word, you know, anything in
that umbrella might be able to tell that it's there,
first of all, And second of all, it's much easier
on me if I can only if I only have
to do one specific ward rather than you know, a
wide net of words, because it does cost something from
my energy or what have you ingredients. And three, I
mean we want it to work, right, So yeah, you know,
each word is specific to the type of thing that
you're trying to protect yourself from.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was just plotting for the future, because
you know, once we've identified it, if then we decide
the next course of action is getting rid of it.
That it might be good to have like a full
back point for if things go really badly that we
can flee to. It can't follow us to run to
the office, just the office. Oh, we can just do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, I mean it's a little far away.
We'd want to probably drive, but yeah, win in down.
Speaker 3: That door is just going to stay there at the
gas station probably.
Speaker 2: Usually that's how it works. When we're in a spot
and we're helping people out, that door will stay until
the case is going.
Speaker 3: What happens to the people that need to use the
gas station bathroom?
Speaker 7: I imagine that chairs before you sit down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also just think it's usually I imagine by
the time we get back, we'll be next to the
gas station, because usually we just appear nearby, but not
in a bathroom. So right right, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: I was just making sure that we weren't inadvertently dimensionally
kidnapping people from a gas station bathroom. That's all I
was just don't checking we ain't doing that, and then
they go, what's this place and they step into the void.
Speaker 4: You know, I just want to wait to.
Speaker 2: Know yeah, I guess we'll find out when we get
back if there's somebody waiting for us.
Speaker 6: Yes, so before we forget, we should do that tape
recorder thing, if anybody wanted to do that. Yeah, who's
got a convincing.
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 5: Well, what should it be? Should it be?
Speaker 7: Help?
Speaker 5: Help?
Speaker 6: Or maybe scream or please don't eat me?
Speaker 8: Or Usually it's people going like what was that? Or
they're just kind of, you know, on their way home
talking about normal things.
Speaker 7: Did you hear something?
Speaker 5: Okay, noise? Who wants to record that?
Speaker 4: Goes sounded like you might be interested?
Speaker 7: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 5: Here you go.
Speaker 3: Immediately locked up?
Speaker 7: We need to sit the scene. Okay, here, I'll send
the scene for you. You're right, yeah, thanks, thanks, thank you.
Speaker 8: Leaving a beautiful, you know, free bedroom home, but it's
in the middle of the woods. Oh, you've worked a long,
hard day at your office doing things with your fun
camera and you know you're just happy to be home.
Speaker 7: And now it is dark. It's probably nine thirty at night.
What a great day. You pull into your.
Speaker 8: Driveway looking to get ready to have a deligious man
who love meat and maybe some rice if you're feeling
a little bit spicy and then all of a sudden, as.
Speaker 7: You open the door, you'll hear this crazy noise. How
was that.
Speaker 3: Heard of someone out there?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 5: Is that the good?
Speaker 3: Just put that on loop?
Speaker 5: Do we cut?
Speaker 6: Do we cut before he said that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because I think we got Barkley saying, uh good in
the middle of all that.
Speaker 7: This is nice.
Speaker 2: You want to try?
Speaker 7: Okay? Hell e the zen again? Religious? Can you hear
this noise?
Speaker 3: What was that noise? Is there someone out there?
Speaker 7: Hello? Hello? And cut?
Speaker 5: Good? Yeah?
Speaker 7: The first take better, but it'll do well. We make
it's always played again?
Speaker 5: Anybody Hello?
Speaker 7: Is there anyone out there? Do you have to do
it again? That's one sounds sort of recording.
Speaker 2: Do we know how this thing works?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Did you hit the right button?
Speaker 4: Hope that it ain't broken?
Speaker 7: All right? If we don't need to do it again.
I'm getting better at the noise.
Speaker 2: I think I think maybe one more time.
Speaker 6: Okay, Actually, we gotta be careful we keep doing these noises.
We might actually attract one prematurely.
Speaker 4: I would solve the problem, admittedly in some way.
Speaker 2: I mean they would have heard us talking this whole time,
to be fair, Yeah, that's true, and it would have
smelled all of us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it'll probably both. Can you do both? Or
did you erase the first one? Sorry? I just run
to practice now.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I mean I think I don't think you
need to set the scene again. Girls, Do you need that?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 3: Just give me one second. No, you're good, go ahead, No,
it's fine, it's fine. Obviously I'm not an.
Speaker 4: Act your photographer. There's nothing wrong with that, and that's
saying there.
Speaker 3: Just getting in the character. Give me one second.
Speaker 7: You got it.
Speaker 2: I believe in you. Do you need him to make
the sound again? Because I mean it was pretty good?
Speaker 3: No, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, all right here I go. Okay, hello,
what was that noise? Is there someone out there?
Speaker 7: Hello? Okay, wow, I don't think it worked that?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Nailed it perfect.
Speaker 7: There you go. It's either going to attract this.
Speaker 6: It's going to attract a howl or scare the ship
out of somebody hiking at night.
Speaker 7: Who hicks it?
Speaker 3: Not? Construction's at more than you'd wish by the abandoned mine.
Speaker 7: It's a teenage in old country time.
Speaker 2: Classic teenagers young and it's probably right. Okay, now that
we've got our trap. Should we go talk to some people.
Everything's working right, You've got the camera zone, you're doing
your thing.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Gym's got his jacket. Let's hope nothing bad happens to it.
It's a nice jacket.
Speaker 5: I sots to give a hands up. I don't think
I mentioned this note. I'm not getting any real reception here,
so I can't DOWNO the go app.
Speaker 7: So I don't think I really if something wrong with
your my phone, No.
Speaker 5: It's just this places a terrible reception.
Speaker 4: It'll be better that a that, or we could I
mean you said we have the resources, we need to
make purchases if necessary, co get ourselves a burner or something.
Speaker 7: Check your pockets.
Speaker 6: Why do we need to cook something?
Speaker 4: Perhaps some video? Uh yeah, it looks like I got
some money.
Speaker 5: I may look.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's.
Speaker 2: Enough, but well I find it's usually enough for whatever
it is that you need. But just wonderful because you
got to use your instinct on what it is that
that money is for, or whatever it is, because it
could be that you think that it is for the
vending machine older except that it isn't actually for the
vending machine. It was for something else. And then by
the time you get to something else, you've already spent
the money on the vending machine because you thought that
grumbling in your stomach.
Speaker 5: I also have my wallet on me. I literally came
from the Grosy store and then walked into Oh that's
right office.
Speaker 2: Oh perfect, look at that.
Speaker 4: Do we need to bring bring snacks for you alder?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I do love to eat, right.
Speaker 4: So so that's the thing we need to make sure
we bring with it. It's at all times in case you.
Speaker 2: You know, I have I have my stakeout snake.
Speaker 4: I brought myne You don't need to worry about vending machines,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 7: No, I learned my lesson.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, let's.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 8: Let's in town or do you want to stop off
of even catches someone at the construction set.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, let's stop at the construction side. I mean
they're the closest to it.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, all right, Yeah, we can break it in
the foeman's office and rifles to some documents. Oh that
sounds that's a classic. That's like detective like one on one.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, well, I wouldn't say breaking and entering and stealing
is necessary.
Speaker 2: But about stealing, Gus was saying that we just break
in and poke around. I mean, how else are you
going to get the inform.
Speaker 5: My by asking?
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's a good point. We could try that
at first.
Speaker 4: Right, and if that was there, then of course we
go in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, why don't we go ahead and hit
on down there?
Speaker 7: Then are we? Yeah, we're going to drive out anyway,
so might as well.
Speaker 6: You know, we didn't give a name to our dummy.
Speaker 2: Oh we should. It's a really good idea.
Speaker 3: Dummy's pretty good.
Speaker 6: I'm going to call him detective Mud.
Speaker 2: Detective Mud.
Speaker 4: I was going to say Francoill, but that's fine too.
Speaker 6: Well, you see because well you see, because mud spelt
backwards is.
Speaker 5: Dumb. Why do I positive for a second.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: That was involuntary.
Speaker 7: I don't know what happened on the edge of my seat.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm feeling.
Speaker 2: Uh, okay, should we go. Let's let's get going here.
Speaker 7: Let's out of here.
Speaker 6: Something's going on.
Speaker 8: Five minutes of a beeping noise as we back up,
regardless we get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So there are a couple of these pop
up offices here. What day did you say it was
Barkley said it was Tuesday. You said it was Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, but I was I was wrong, and it
is a Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, now I believe, and I need somebody to
check the paper. But I'm pretty sure that this is
closed right.
Speaker 5: Now, right.
Speaker 3: It's it made mention that the project at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's going to be nobody here. What have
we can repay it out?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Who wants to knock? I will, all right, I'm gonna
knock on it. I'm just gonna walk right up and
knock on the door and everything will be fine.
Speaker 7: Hello dumb.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 6: Hello, Maybe you should say the you know, d u
m because they might just think that you're knocking on
their door and insulting them.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well hello, it's dumb. I mean we're dumb.
Do you have a second.
Speaker 6: Of our There's so many jokes that I could make there.
Speaker 4: It's perfect, perfect entrance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't uh, I don't see I don't think
anybody's here. I don't see any vehicles or nothing either.
Speaker 7: Well, it.
Speaker 4: Try to handle. Maybe it's unlocked.
Speaker 3: If it's unluck, it's not breaking and entering.
Speaker 2: I need center to roll for me there, but you
do get your plus five technically rolling for.
Speaker 4: Me, right, would let's see, would that be on the
body then would that be solt.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're going to roll your whatever your yours
is soul, So you go ahead and roll.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm using.
Speaker 2: Your ability for a second.
Speaker 4: I see, yeah, and you can.
Speaker 2: Add you can add tention for me because you're.
Speaker 4: Instead Yeah, I have to fill out my shape. Well
that's a seven and.
Speaker 2: Night doors locked, so I agree it. Nope, Nope, that
felt wrong.
Speaker 6: It's all right, felt long. And we're trying to break
into a place.
Speaker 2: I was just seeing if the door was open, you know,
because and then the decision after that comes after that.
You know, if it's open, then we decide for we're
going in or not. But it's not open, so we're
not going.
Speaker 3: Me in, right, We're only going to break in to
read the documents if it seems like there's something there.
And the construction guy are like super obviously evil and
like would be the ones in the Scooby Doo mask.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, we're making a lot of assumptions here that
they're the ones.
Speaker 3: Responsible culture reference means.
Speaker 7: I'm wondering what was happening there, I think a more.
Speaker 6: Well, let's let's take this approach instead. There's got to
be some sort of sign or something around here that
should say the company name, and then possibly who owns
that company. I mean, like, uh yeah, it should be
uh moms like Johnson and Sons. You know, have you
ever heard of Johnson's and Sons down over in Stamford?
Speaker 2: That sign right there, that's his Mercer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Exactly, now, yeah, and then usually they have like under
that managed buy as usually back in my day at
least that people took pride and you know that sort
of stuff. I'm not sure if they advertise their management here.
Speaker 3: Clint Mercer is the is the site manager from the paper?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is his name on the door of.
Speaker 4: Clinton?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: There we go, Well now we know Clinton Mercer. Any
other signs? I mean, if it's just Clint Mercer, we
can head into the town and start asking around for Clint,
and we can question them and see where it goes,
and if necessary, if we think something the faeries is
going on, we'll go to the local authorities and see
if we can't get a search warrant to investigate is
off the well, they would have the search warrant and
then it would go into their hands, and then well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should see what you mean. We should maybe
try not to involve rabbits as much as possible. That's
the term for people who are not aware.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say they don't have thumbs, so that
was made it difficult.
Speaker 2: Yes, not so be confused with real actual rabbits, because
they definitely know that magic consists and they want nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 4: I feel like a watered down kind of situation. I
don't know what culture.
Speaker 7: Thank you, that's all right. A rabbit with thumbs, get.
Speaker 4: Away, hairpin, hairpin.
Speaker 5: Oh no, this is the species rabbit. If you find
a species rabbit with any individual.
Speaker 3: Yes, So do we need like a cover story when
we talk to the people in town or do we know?
Speaker 2: I just tell them the truth. I just tell them,
you know how we're dumb. We investigate the supernatural, super unnatural, paranormal,
pair of abnormal, cult another worldly, meta metaphysical astra and
astrophysical and and Haines Thomson hulu, And usually they interrupt
me before I'm done, uh saying all.
Speaker 3: That was the very last word you say, Hulu, Pulu?
Speaker 5: Yeah, huh like that streaming of us.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: I think it's a river, not a stream, right, I
was thinking it was a hoop you swung around your
hips with.
Speaker 5: Let's get anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't think you need to have that memorized.
But it is basically a very wide umbrella that covers
all the things that we do and a variety of regions.
So yeah, maybe it'd be good to get to memorizing
that anyway. We could also you could also just say
we investigate the supernatural. Well I wouldn't maybe just say supernatural.
I would say supernatural, super unnatural, paranormal, pair abnormal. At
least those four. Then you can forget the rest. Well,
maybe not forget, but just say, you know, it's a
long list anyway. I'm just honest usually, and I find
that the people, the people that know that there's something
wrong or need our help, we'll find us.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure I'm not going to
get sectioned for you know what is talking to the cops.
Speaker 6: It's not important, all right, Well, okay, I kind of,
you know, brought myself back to reality of this situation.
Maybe obviously we shouldn't get the cops involved. It's just
going to be a bureaucratic mess. But I think we
should at least talk to the foreman, mister Mercer, and see,
you know, if he can cooperate with us before we
even know if it's important to go into this office
in the first place.
Speaker 7: Who knows.
Speaker 6: It could just be a big waste. And we've just
break broken and entered a place for no reason. Yep,
after stand off for justifications.
Speaker 4: I'm fair, I guess, but I could always see if
we can just get in real quick, because maybe we
have a little insight.
Speaker 2: I told you remains a thief.
Speaker 6: I'm not still enough. I think you're right, he is
a criminal.
Speaker 2: I told you. Okay, anyway, let's we all have different
ways of going about this. The office pickture for a reason, Harry, let's.
Speaker 3: Go, harr you can you can you pick loucks?
Speaker 4: Yes, it was a hobby. Well, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm cool with that.
Speaker 4: I think that's older kids online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll cucle back to using those skills.
Speaker 7: Probably a hobby, yeah, sir, that is a lie.
Speaker 2: That is a toll. That is not a lie if
I've ever heard one. A hobby, my my, goat. That
is not true.
Speaker 4: M I didn't know you a goad.
Speaker 6: No, everybody seems obliged to break into here.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. Yeah, I don't want
to break in.
Speaker 4: I say we have cotton.
Speaker 3: I don't think a cot is on board for breaking
in just too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so what is that against.
Speaker 2: Barkley?
Speaker 5: What do you think, Barley?
Speaker 8: I think if it don't find anything in town and
we're stuck, but then we just bust the door down.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even want to bust it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I think that still ties us, so we're
not doing that.
Speaker 7: I think we should go to town. Okay.
Speaker 4: I wasn't denying that. I'm just saying there's an option.
Speaker 3: Can you show me how to pick a lock?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 4: It's a useful tip. Listen, if you if there's a
criminal or a creature behind a door and you can't
break in, and I meant to break in, all right,
we can just leave the thing in there and let
it kill whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean, if the universe wants you to know how
to pick a uck.
Speaker 4: And I know how to pick a lock, but you
ain't believe it in learning skills, I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Do believe in learning, you would instinctively, you would instinctively
know how to pick a lock the universe wanted to. Yeah,
I think if the universe wanted me to, I think
I would have. I would have known by now.
Speaker 4: That's Dame and preser, thank you and very assumptive thank you.
Speaker 3: You're averse to learning new things because of the time scale,
thing is?
Speaker 4: I think so, I think I think that might be
part of it.
Speaker 2: You know what, why don't we hit the town?
Speaker 6: I think I think that would be a good idea.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm sorry, Okay, where exactly do you think we
should go?
Speaker 2: Yep, that's money local watering hole.
Speaker 6: Well, certainly a diner. I mean, every town's got a
diner and then you can get all the good leads there.
They always know the gossip and the stories of every
town because they overhear every conversation.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, so we're going to hit to the local dinner.
What's it cold, y'all? You can make it up.
Speaker 6: What the heck is Denny's?
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, I will allow it.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a fairly local diner. Admittedly, it's just.
Speaker 2: The same local I was going to say in a
small town, like they say, probably not a chain, but
go with it.
Speaker 7: We'll say it's the only two spoons.
Speaker 4: But you know Denny's.
Speaker 3: I do like that it spelled with an eye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Denny's two spoon diner. It's just like not
Danny Denny's. But yeah, okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 7: Now baby, it's Donny's. Is it a dinner?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a diner.
Speaker 7: I don't know. Ask Okay, when we do coffee.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have one person roll with something for me.
It's just the standard flat D one hundred. Who wants
to do it?
Speaker 4: I've rolled it today.
Speaker 5: Okay, not it, I can roll.
Speaker 2: Okay, go for it to.
Speaker 7: Eighty one.
Speaker 2: Okay. So when we get into the diner, I'm gonna
say it is a traditional small town twin peak style diner.
Oh my god, this makes me so happy. So there
are booths, there are big wide windows, there's like a
central location right in the middle of the dinner where
the the wait staff would be. That's where coffee is,
and also maybe some plates stacked by.
Speaker 7: What else we have here?
Speaker 2: I think the booze lined the windows on the outside.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We go through the door and we hear the light
ding of the bell and we come in and there
are three people sitting at different tables. We've got a couple,
two people sitting together, and then we've got one person
sitting by themselves. And then we have a waitress. It
is working today and she has a very very wide grin.
H Barkley, would you like to be the waitress for me?
Speaker 7: Sure? I'd love to be the y'all table for one, two, three,
four of six? Yeah, yes, like two booths.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we will uh, we will just yeah, well
we'll get we'll squeeze into.
Speaker 7: A booth of the big booth.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, that that big booth that's all round. Yeah,
a big round booth.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm all might ask a clarification real quick. Yeah,
the person that's sitting alone, are they in that little
like center bar area or then the booth on their own?
Speaker 2: They're in They're in a booth on their own?
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, y'all, okay, this way y'all new in town.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes you could say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah we're dumb.
Speaker 8: Actually, oh yeah, it's good. It's good to be aware
of who you are.
Speaker 7: And you thank you.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to work on that.
Speaker 7: Older it's now not it's not impart every every time,
usually we I bet it works.
Speaker 2: We investigate them.
Speaker 7: It's all right, you're very pretty. It's okay.
Speaker 4: Usually what said.
Speaker 2: I don't see how those two things are related, but
I appreciate you. Miss well.
Speaker 8: You know, if God closes the door, he opens of
a window just to see her pretty face.
Speaker 3: Don't closed a few doors today?
Speaker 4: Now security locks that window probably happen.
Speaker 7: Can I get yours on the driller?
Speaker 2: I think we're speaking another language. Do you have a tea?
We have real ice tea here.
Speaker 4: I'll just coffee to cream please, coffee too, cream of
water for you.
Speaker 6: I'll just take your coffee as well, No cream or sugar,
are you sir?
Speaker 3: Lotte coffee black coffee perfect?
Speaker 4: Could I'll go and get some eggs over easy on
toast as well.
Speaker 7: I have a slice of pie, amazing fresh pie. I
look at that strawberry bar.
Speaker 6: You don't throw another slice of pie in there, would
you please?
Speaker 7: That's great? Thank you for you. So I'll have a
chocolate malted if you haven't, of course we do.
Speaker 2: This is my favorite.
Speaker 7: I'll be, I'll be, I'll be back as quick as
a as a whip.
Speaker 2: She was nice here man, very nice. I think we
were sort of had some miscommunicating.
Speaker 6: There a lovely mustache.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now I'm kind of jealous. I might have to
ask who her guy is.
Speaker 2: Maybe you'll have to get your mustache tended to hereoking.
Speaker 7: To be for likes inded a bit more stylish.
Speaker 2: We should we should be sure to tip her real
nice dealing with us. Okay, anyway, what's the plan? Are
we going to interrogate her? And by interrogate I mean
askure a bunch of questions?
Speaker 5: I think so we're looking for Massa, right, so I
assume Massas fell you known, maybe you can ask okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Also I ask if she's hearded thing.
Speaker 2: Would you like to roll for me?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 4: For sure?
Speaker 7: Use your magic one? Please?
Speaker 4: Right? Any shift of any kind at ten? All right,
well that's a twenty seven success.
Speaker 2: That's the twenty seven You know what, This is a
little sidebar here. When I was writing this, I was like, man,
this is going to be really hard to make sure
that you know, we meet the people that we want
to be meeting, or the fact that they are going
to just recommend somebody and I'm not going to know
how to But then I remembered that this is meant
And guess who walks through the door right now, Harry
with that twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Gonna take a guess, it's uh, maybe perhaps that foreman.
Speaker 2: That that man's right, it's Clint. That's absolutely right, Clint Mercer.
And you know what else, he's got a tag on
his work suit that says Clint Mercer. And on the
jacket it's got a logo for the company, the Constructions.
Speaker 7: As I'm bringing back everyone's beverages. Oh hi, Clinn, perfect
already done for the day.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, if it isn't Clint Mercer, oh.
Speaker 7: You know Clinn.
Speaker 4: Conveniently, Oh that's Clint, justo.
Speaker 2: We needed to talk to okay, and I lean in.
Speaker 7: He's been having a he's in the newspaper today having
a bit of a tough time. But strange noises over
body of why we were we saw that we wanted
to talk to him. I lean in, Course, who wants
to lead the interview? I would do it normally, but
I want to see how y'all.
Speaker 3: Dochi's got the best people skills? I think, what do
you think of cutching?
Speaker 4: And from the same wins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you might know a little more about this time
I met a complete loss.
Speaker 3: Wat of references that Clinton will get.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can talk to you, I can read the questioning.
Speaker 8: Perfect, Sorry to interrupt, the only anything else until I
bring the food out.
Speaker 2: No, that's perfect.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, eggs and toast.
Speaker 5: Thank you all.
Speaker 2: My name is by the way, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Flow, thank you flow.
Speaker 7: In case y'all couldn't read, it's right here, okay, I'll
see in a bit.
Speaker 6: Oh, just one one thing, Flow, I just can't read.
My friend had a couple of questions actually concerning your
buddy Clint.
Speaker 7: Oh really, yeah, no she's not No, no, not not
like that if he's single or anything. I mean no, no.
About the gulable divorce, it was very ugly. He's a
broken man. You could swoop him right up.
Speaker 6: I think no. More and more so about the paper,
the going ons, yeah, that know, with this recent bit
of bad luck.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, it's been very hard on him. What it
is people are nervous.
Speaker 5: Has he spoken to you or anyone spoken to you
about what has been going on with it or in
the paper.
Speaker 8: He really just comes in and you know, kind of
just vance a little bit, just in how hard it's been,
and he's afraid the whole project's not going to work out.
Tensions are building, that sort of thing, people getting angry
it's not done yet.
Speaker 5: Leader's Clinton answer to is anyone pressuring? I mean, it
seems like they take hands on it pretty well, not
forcing any workers to go there till things assorted.
Speaker 8: But well, I'm not quite sure as investors or other
things like that, but city really wants something to happen here.
Some people don't want it there, obviously, two But overall
it's going to be a big deal for the community.
Speaker 5: Would you say it's the majority of the minority of
the town that doesn't want it there.
Speaker 8: It's tough to say. I only talk to them like
one or two or three at a time, but you know,
everyone has their opinion.
Speaker 5: I think that's all I think. I think honestly, I
might give Clint to perk himself. No no better way
to information than pie and your eggs, thank you as well?
Are leaning in it?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 4: Do we just want to say, well, from something like
animal control or whatnot.
Speaker 3: Coffee meant to be ice cold?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm?
Speaker 4: Is that it's just we got to mixed up there
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Really good, you know, because in other places they actually
like half ice and added sugar and this is just
ice and tea.
Speaker 5: It's perfect.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ice tea, that's what it is. It's very simple. Yeah,
ice and tea, only two ingredients.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 8: They finished my malted But yeah, I tell everybody I'm
a manable control that that.
Speaker 4: So I think that's what we should stick with. Then
are you good? And you'd get brain freeze or something.
Speaker 7: It's a little painful, but it'll pass.
Speaker 4: I feel like the paint your brain disconnected a little
bit there. For a second I thought I heard no,
really just a moment, but it seems it's all right now.
Speaker 7: Does it sound like a hel.
Speaker 4: No, I hope, I hope it doesn't sound like If
that's what the house sounds like. I need to get
my heir and.
Speaker 7: I feel refreshed good.
Speaker 4: So an will control just making sure on the same
page that was there. So not dumb.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's up to y'all. I'm usually honest, but
you go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go talk to the good thing.
Speaker 6: I think good good thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that you all would see a flow.
Talking to Clint for a second, and then she points
over to our table, and then Clint will wander.
Speaker 3: Over a flow apartment of uncontained mammals.
Speaker 2: All right, what it's not a point I like that.
Speaker 5: Hello, I'm guessing flow explained to where with animal control? Uh?
Speaker 2: Oh, all right, it's good news.
Speaker 5: Yes, we got called in about some strange sounds that
are coming from the uh construction and winding site.
Speaker 2: Yeah, down by the old line.
Speaker 5: Yep. Yes, we're actually going to see if we confine you.
So it's honestly incredible coincidence that you walked in just
in time.
Speaker 2: Definitely see all their flinch at that word. Oh yeah,
I come here all the time, the Great Coffee Ship, though, to.
Speaker 5: Help you all, honestly is more of how we can
help you with this situation. We just want to ask
you a few questions so we can make sure we
know exactly what we're dealing with. Yeah, I make sure
you have the right equipment. I suppose. The first question
is were you there to witness or hear these sounds?
What it's reported to you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: No, I was not there.
Speaker 2: It was reported to me. Oh right, good worker. Dumb
as rocks though, Okay, we.
Speaker 5: Might need to question them afterwards. But we understand that
you've been feeling a bit under pressure to get the
sides back open, and heard that there's some not one
hundred percent supported by people in town this mining operation.
Do you know of anyone in particular that would want
to stop it?
Speaker 2: I mean maybe, Betty am, but no, I think most
people wanted to get done. I think I hope at
least that's what everybody says to my face.
Speaker 5: I'm only asking this because we had a situation just
a couple of weeks ago where a few people faked
reports and made up situations that would could potentially close
down a zoo. So we're just going to make sure
that this is a the real deal.
Speaker 2: I'm not Oh yeah, no, this is the real deal.
Bow wouldn't it wouldn't purposely get us all out of work.
We're like a family at Mercer.
Speaker 5: You know, it's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is my family.
Speaker 5: Death. Betty and Merchant, Yeah, have they been very vocal
about being against this mining impression.
Speaker 2: I mean, other than saying you're disturbing. I mean, look, okay,
there was an incident several years ago now, and there
might be some dead in that mind, and I might be.
I mean, there definitely is. And she's upset that we're
disturbing the dead. She believes they should stay where they lie.
Speaker 5: How do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: I mean, and I shrugged my shoulders.
Speaker 5: Works work, Claire.
Speaker 4: Fine question if you don't mind, mister Mercer. The incident,
the tragic one a few years ago, a collapse decades.
Speaker 7: Ago now, yeah, not decades.
Speaker 2: To be exact.
Speaker 4: Specific. Good, very very good, thank you. It was collapse.
Something else you're going to have to roll.
Speaker 2: Actually, so try to get me to tell you the truth.
So one person can roll a charm or some form
of If you've got special bullshit, now would be the
time to use it to get me to open up
to you. Who wants to do it?
Speaker 5: I want anything special? I mean, I can roll it.
So I've been leading this absolutely rogation to go for it.
Speaker 2: What's fun is like each case can be a different lead,
which I think will be fun.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, don't have anything?
Speaker 2: Yes when we're going to rule? So but you rolled
an eight? Okay, what do you think you do or
say that gets me to open up? Because this is
a secret. This is something I wouldn't tell anyone.
Speaker 5: I think drag isn't as good at it, but I
think the catchy is off. They kind of turn on
their It's so different from customer service voice. It's more
like their waitress voice. Gently place a hand on his arm,
especially after hearing that he's been through a divorce.
Speaker 7: Okay, and you give Harry ship.
Speaker 5: You to get tipped somehow and.
Speaker 3: That'll work.
Speaker 5: Place a hand, a hand on their arm. Let's go.
We're here to help. Please.
Speaker 2: Well, it didn't really collapse so much as flood and
my paw was the one, My grandpa was the one
that made the call to shut it down. So I
shouldn't feel responsible, but I do a little bit. Those
twelve people died because my grandpa made a decision to
save the machinery.
Speaker 3: The machinery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to save the equipment, and flooding left
those people in there.
Speaker 3: Huh, machineries valuable? Still got it?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some of the equipment we still use.
It's still in there around there right.
Speaker 4: Feeling sensitive to my apologies up front, but anyone in
town that's relatives that are vehemently against this project, relatives
of those that passed.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean no, not really. I mean you've got Darlene,
h but I mean Darlene, like.
Speaker 7: I said, she.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Pretty much everybody that I
can think of is still working for us. Okay here,
when your family works for something, you stay working for
the thing.
Speaker 4: And you know, right, I meant more those from the incident,
if any of their descendants were around in town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean bol but he, like I said,
he works for me. Most of the descendants still. I mean,
in a small town like this, you much do the
job your your Paul did before him. So I think
most of it's water under the bridge, though, I mean
I even't nobody's blamed me none. I haven't seen any
heat or hate or nothing like that.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 7: Also, it's not.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know why I told you that.
It's not really well known. I mean, it's just a
rumor I heard it's sometime Paul told me that or nothing.
But I mean I see the ledger, right, I see
that we save some equipment from that day, so I
kind of believe it might be true. I don't know
why I told you that. It just came out.
Speaker 5: It's very helpful. Like I said, you've been caught to
some situation. We thought it was an animal and it
just turned out to be the scrunt towards employer or employee.
So hearing this stuff helps us narrow downe whether or
not it's our job or another apartment's job.
Speaker 2: Oh, and really close. And I don't think he would, No,
he wouldn't lie about something like this. He was really
disturbed though. He was swearing up and down that it,
you know, weren't no animal that he could tell. And
he's been swearing up and down. He's gonna go back
and find out exactly.
Speaker 5: What it is. So we wouldn't advise that, especially if
it is a wild animal. Do you know what you
can find?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he lives. He lives just off Main Street. You
can't miss it. There's only one street it's called Main
and there's only one street light.
Speaker 6: That narrows it down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we call it the light.
Speaker 5: I kind of like squeeze his bice. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I blush a little bit. You see some color come
up in my cheeks and my knee.
Speaker 7: Here's your pie, y'all, there's your eggs.
Speaker 2: Well, glad I could be of help, and you know,
good luck with your.
Speaker 7: Animal controlling.
Speaker 3: Mister mercer.
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Yes, Can I just ask what what is the project?
Speaker 7: What do you.
Speaker 3: What do you guys happen to achieve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we're kind of hoping that we can turn
this place into a little bit of a marina. Let
the river kind of flow, expand it a little bit,
get some fish in and some other business up in here.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but to do that, we'd have to open the
mine up.
Speaker 7: I think no, of course, And.
Speaker 3: I'm just curious. You haven't had any reports of you know,
water contamination or anything, you know, run off from the
machinery or the mining operation.
Speaker 2: What. No, keep your voice down. What you can't just
be throwing around words like that. You could get the
whole project shut down. Why do you find something?
Speaker 3: Oh well, once we've concluded our initial investigative report.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 7: Bring that straight to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we could talk about that at length, and you know,
somewhere with a bit more privacy and.
Speaker 2: The course my office. That'd be great.
Speaker 3: At the construction site.
Speaker 5: Yes, sure, yeah, you can, I can meet you.
Speaker 3: Sure, sounds good. Okay, and if it needs to be sooner,
we'll come find you.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, and then he'll walk.
Speaker 5: I think we're just going to joy Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I lean it across the table to a cotch. You like,
that was pretty good.
Speaker 7: It smooth as butter, very impressive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got a lot of information on that.
Speaker 6: So it looks like our next man is this bow,
which would be uh, well, I have no problem finding
he's on the only street in this town.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm trying to think back now, those slash marks
on a tree. It said it was like mountain lion size,
but there ain't no scatter nothing around there usually fur.
Speaker 3: Oh, I take out the photo of the wellmarks and
slat it across the table.
Speaker 4: To you, it looked like it might have been more
knife based, like coved or was it actually slashes? Ooh?
Speaker 2: Who wants to answer? Who rolled for this to look
at it? Who looked at it? It was you found it,
Jim found it, and.
Speaker 4: I was the one who rolled successfully on examining it.
Speaker 2: You like, okay, and what exactly was your question?
Speaker 4: My question is does it look at a second glance,
does this look like it could have been something made
by a person coughed into trees to make it look
like an animal, or is it actually an animal like
more natural slashes or more.
Speaker 2: Coloss does not look carved per se. Honestly, I think
it could go either way, so.
Speaker 4: It's inconclusive, which is still helpful.
Speaker 7: Helpful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure this animal at all. Both related
to a direct descendant who.
Speaker 2: Died, and I mean, you've got you got mercery over
there who's directly related to the guy who did it all.
Speaker 4: But it's a rumor, and who would hear the rumors?
Most the ones who are directly related. Oh, and it's
a small town. Rumors are spread by a few and
everyone hears it.
Speaker 7: So do you think?
Speaker 2: Okay, so hold on this work backwards.
Speaker 7: I like this.
Speaker 2: If it is a Howler, what does that mean it
is just hunting people.
Speaker 4: Randomly hunting people?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's all connected and it wouldn't make
any sense if it were a Howler situation. How does
that relate to any of what's going on here?
Speaker 4: Yep? A great question, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: And Barkley, because you guys have dealt with this before
in some capacity. Yeah, where do they come from?
Speaker 2: Hellers? Yeah, I've ever dealt with a heller before, So
I don't know, that's honestly.
Speaker 7: You mean, where did they originate from?
Speaker 3: Like, what what causes them to? Like? Are they? Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure, I know yeah, kind of there.
Speaker 8: Well, I just maybe my words was wrong, but it
kind of been around for you know, I've looked up
some things. You know, the sightings go back hundreds of years.
The native population here they had stories about similar creatures
they were they seem to be, you know, when they
told them they were maybe more protectors. And then over
the years a lot of English and that kind of
Irish folk moved in and that story kind of changed.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: But it's.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so they just kind of as far as I know,
and I've been here, they've just been here. It's not like,
you know, somebody was cursed or or or anything horrible
like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's not a situation where something terrible has happened
and then one is created by the terrible thing happening
supernaturally occurring.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I see what you were trying to connect there.
If the people who died in the mind could have
possibly been.
Speaker 3: Or alternatively, or spirit they've drawn? Are they drawn to
the dead, or to carrying, or to places of.
Speaker 7: They like life.
Speaker 4: Run from them and they'll chase it, all right, Huh?
How often do they hunt? Are they like a bear
that eats for a bit and then hobbinates or do
they kind of keep doing it. You said they enjoyed
the chase.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they can plague an area for a while. Usually
they're alone.
Speaker 8: A couple of times they've been in larger groups, but
I think that's usually around when one is given birth.
I've never seen it myself, so I can't say that
for sure. How they reproduce, but usually if they think
there's about to be more of them, you'll see.
Speaker 7: A group.
Speaker 2: Arthroxually any dead bodies right now.
Speaker 8: See any report? No, I didn't see any report. He
didn't see any tracks nowhere. They would drag some of
the people, at least before they were totally done, back
to their dumbicile to enjoy. So no trag marks, which
is at least if there are some. No one's been
killed yet, which is a good sign.
Speaker 4: But that don't line up though. I mean, listen, what
you had said was they'll sneak up an attack. Yeah,
if this bull person. How often does someone get away
from one out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 8: Well, usually if they're close to a place so they
can get inside, they won't try to break down your door.
They just kind of give up and try again.
Speaker 7: But where you live.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ain't nowhere to hide except maybe the man. And
it's just building. But but that didn't look like it
was mes with none.
Speaker 8: And if he if he had heard, if he had
heard their howls and he said something, there's a good
chance he would have been chased, and he might have
a story to tell.
Speaker 7: We should probably we should probably go get a hold
of them.
Speaker 4: Question.
Speaker 2: Uh, we didn't see anybody else there when we were there, right, No, okay, all.
Speaker 3: Right, I had my I was checking, you know, domest
of my ability, that sort of thing.
Speaker 7: But perhaps we should go then, yeah, get this to
go perfect.
Speaker 2: Uh, And then I will go ahead and have us
arrive at the I guess destination of where Bow's house
was described.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, is he is he pulling out? There's
a car leaving the driveway? Is that his house?
Speaker 2: I think that's the one that was described right by
the which McCall it? Who's it's my boss?
Speaker 7: Off the main street right with the street.
Speaker 4: By the main street, Yeah, that's the one street to
go inside?
Speaker 7: Or should we follow him?
Speaker 4: I think we follow him. I don't trust I'm all.
Speaker 7: About the discreete following.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 6: There's one thing follow Yeah, certainly is a it's certainly
not allowed vehicle, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Recreational vehicle is a stealthy vehicle.
Speaker 4: You never he'll win a bago.
Speaker 2: That might be a good idea. Well, maybe it's more suspicious.
Speaker 3: Right, it's starting to break into his house.
Speaker 6: Why do we keep I don't I don't see why
you keep wanting to break into places?
Speaker 3: Have you never wanted to kick a door down?
Speaker 4: And it's a small town, it ain't gonna be locked anyway.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would be surprised. All Right, we're gonna go
after him. We want that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Will Barkley, will you roll for me? And by
that I mean I will roll? Sure, I will roll
for you.
Speaker 7: But did I roll?
Speaker 2: But he's fourteen? Okay? Where is he going?
Speaker 7: He looks like he's going in the direction of the
mine where we were already Okay.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, Well, looks like he's going.
Speaker 7: Looks like he's going to the mine.
Speaker 2: Why would he do that?
Speaker 5: Interesting? I Clint said that he plans on going back
to see.
Speaker 7: What it was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was planning on trying to find out. Yeah,
I think he might be trying to hunt it.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, do you think he's going to find your
thank you.
Speaker 6: Well, he'll hear it and assume that somebody's in trouble,
will go running towards it.
Speaker 3: We should probably stop him.
Speaker 4: Actually yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Should probably should speed up pick it up.
Speaker 7: As we go.
Speaker 8: My goodness, man, I can jog quicker than this. We
were carrying a lot of extra weight today. I'm not
it's not used to so many people. I could tell
by the I can hear the tires rubbing against the wheel. Well,
I've I've been. I'm surprised you even have rubber left
on the back tires. I have a lot of supplies
in here.
Speaker 3: Okay, your horn and see if you'll stop.
Speaker 6: Maybe, well maybe if you didn't have an entire porcelain
toilet in the back of here that's not even plugged up.
Speaker 8: Mind you're using it as a seat. It's always good
to have us fair. Sometimes the other one gets clogged
up and doesn't work.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 7: What am I supposed to do? Ain't my butt out
of the window?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: My goodness?
Speaker 2: Man arguing back to Worth and then the r V
pulls into that. We lose Bow by the way, because
he's already he's in a pickup truck. He drives real
quick and we're nice and slow. So his vehicle is parked.
When we arrive, the lights are on, the car is running.
The door is not a jar, but it's like he's
lighting up the I mean, I'm assuming we go most
of the way up, right, or do we stop?
Speaker 7: I think we go up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would imagine that we would go. Yeah,
we would go until we see his vehicle. Right, So
I'm imagining we're pretty close to the edge. It's clear
he stopped his car and parked his lights towards the
cave entrance.
Speaker 8: On the mind, we get up there and I say,
do you guys want to go up there and grab
him immediately or do you want to see what he's doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead him immediately.
Speaker 2: I think, Oh, I was going to say, see what
he's up to?
Speaker 4: Same but yeah, well you think bez.
Speaker 3: Listen by the fifty to fifty is if we think
he's faking, then obviously the choice would be to watch
and see what he does. If we think the thing
is real, he's in mortal peril in this moment.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, it depends on what it is.
Speaker 6: Right, we got guns, I've got this jar. Oh, it's
in it though.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, is it?
Speaker 3: Is it like?
Speaker 7: Is it bubbly?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's bubbling.
Speaker 7: What is this?
Speaker 8: That's that's acid. That is a last resort if when
things coming out, you feel free to check that jar
of acid. We do you have a jar of acid? Man,
I got up verds health to fans. Okay, well you
never know what could be out there.
Speaker 7: Okay, go get him.
Speaker 3: Let's get the guy.
Speaker 5: Let's let's get the guy for it.
Speaker 2: If you want to do that, we can do that.
But I'm just saying, if that thing turns out, if
he turns out to be a thing that's up to something,
he could be a thing that is that any absolutely,
we see what happens. Forget something's going on, right Okay.
I'm just saying people could not be people. They could
be anything.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm leaving the lights off. We'll have to creep.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're creeping. I can creep.
Speaker 7: I need everything quiet.
Speaker 4: We should just stop here and get off on football.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, okay, claim around. Plus we will move faster
than my vehicle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I need everybody to roll body please,
oh my Okay, okay, this is good.
Speaker 7: Have got nine? Okay? Who failed?
Speaker 4: I did with thirty five?
Speaker 3: I haven't rolled yet I has that's the skill ghost
in the hole?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 3: Is this a context in which should can you read
it for me? A plus five percent shift on rolls
involving stealth, sneaking or avoiding notice once per scene may
slip by may past one casual observer without raising suspicion.
Do you use a casual observer?
Speaker 2: Is that tier one? Do you have tier one or
is that tier two?
Speaker 5: Tier?
Speaker 3: It's just tier one at present?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, then yeah you can do that. You can
use that if you want so you don't have to roll,
but it's once per once per thing. But considering the time,
I think you're safe to use it.
Speaker 5: Actually stealthy ye?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right? As we approach, there is no sign
of Bow. No, No, how close do we want to get, y'all?
Speaker 7: I don't know the cave?
Speaker 5: Is that what it is?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He parked so that his lights would be kind of
spilling towards the cave, but there is no sign of
him right now?
Speaker 6: What about Mud? Is he still there? Is the tape
recorder still going?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, sh it is.
Speaker 7: All right, So.
Speaker 6: He ignored it.
Speaker 7: Huh what was that noise?
Speaker 6: Hey, well it looks untouched.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks fine to me.
Speaker 3: Sounds great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do we mind if I just grab it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go grab that the camera that's overviewing you
want to go? Yeah, I'm gonna go look at that
real quick.
Speaker 7: Are you sure you want to go?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Well, if he went into the mind, okay, I want
to see the overview of where he.
Speaker 7: May have gone.
Speaker 1: Yep, good, good, good good.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds great. So you're gonna go up and you
failed your silence check though, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to the one that that the that
the woods entrance, though not at the mine entrance.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So then you go ahead and you'll be
gone for a minute or two while you go and
do that, and the rest of us what.
Speaker 7: Are we doing?
Speaker 5: On's just to grab the oyster recorder.
Speaker 2: You want to go up to the body, the fake body,
and grab the recorder?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, did you succeed at your quiet check?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: I fell it might okay, all right, so we'll get
back to you in a second. Jim gus, what do
you all do?
Speaker 6: I'd be heading with a kanchi because my jacket's there
and it's really cold, so if the dummy is not working,
I want to go grab my jacket. And also, you know,
it's a giant beast on the loose, so it's better
to stay in pairs.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, So did you succeed at your stealth check? You're quiet?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 2: Okay? All right, okay, so we'll return to you two
in a second. Gus Barkley, it's you, you and me.
What are we doing here?
Speaker 7: I think if they're moving, I'm going to have my rifle.
I'm just going to be read.
Speaker 8: I'm just keeping an eye in case something comes flying
out of the cave. Okay, you have your rifle out, Gus,
what about you?
Speaker 3: I at this moment, I think I would take out
my handicam and I'd start I'd start recording, so I'd
start recording my own footage and sort of you know,
i'd probably catch, like, you know, the the images of
you know, a Cotchey and Jim heading over to collect
their things from the dummy. I would you catch a
look at Harry to get the camera?
Speaker 5: What is you?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sorry, go ahead?
Speaker 5: You finished?
Speaker 3: And you know I'd also you know, get the car itself,
some sort of like setting like the scene. I suppose
I'm not narrating. I'm just sort of doing this, you know, visually,
and uh yeah, probably I focus on on on Barkley
by the end of it because he's the one person
that I'm left with at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I'm here too, but I mean and older, Yeah,
of course.
Speaker 7: Sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you are filming the whole thing now, I
know the answer to this, but just so everybody knows,
this camera is not enchanted magically in any way. So
it's just a normal camera.
Speaker 3: It was a regular, regular handicam. Okay, god it nineteen
ninety five of you.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, then you see and does it have
some sort of night vision or something? So the screens
like the black and the green.
Speaker 3: I'd like to believe it does, but I'm not sure
one hundred percent. I can say mine does. You know.
It might not be like the most cutting edge thing,
but you.
Speaker 2: Know, handicams did back in that time, didn't they good.
Speaker 4: A low light?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, then I'm gonna have your roll for me, Gus,
and it's gonna be your magic stat or your perception
for your camera?
Speaker 3: Gotcha anything for? Uh? Should I add?
Speaker 4: What was that for?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Visuals?
Speaker 2: Yes you can?
Speaker 5: You may.
Speaker 3: Perfect please succeed.
Speaker 2: Sorry okay s failure? Okay, you don't see anything on
the handicam except for I think you'd see a catchee
in Jim making their way slowly towards the fake fake Jim,
what did we call them?
Speaker 5: Mud?
Speaker 2: Okay, making our way towards mud. Okay, and now back
to YouTube, making your way towards mud. Go ahead, and
both of you roll whatever your magic status or perception
if you want to not use rely on magic. Mind
for Jim and I got you. I think your's a
mind too.
Speaker 7: So as both of you do in mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah fail.
Speaker 2: Okay, they said ninety two and a thirty nine. Okay.
You're crawling forward towards this mud deticted mud, and you
hear this going right, it's on a loop.
Speaker 7: Okay, it was me.
Speaker 2: When you get over there, you start to hear some
strange sounds and also you feel a chill up your spine.
Speaker 4: What do you do.
Speaker 2: When you are frightened? Like when you hear an animal
or what you think might be an animal?
Speaker 5: I run in the opposite direction.
Speaker 2: Jim, what about you?
Speaker 7: What would you do you think? I think.
Speaker 6: As Jim sees a coachi running, he'll assume that a
coachi saw something and then just tag along, facing the
direction of where they're running, just kind of like, you know,
running by the side, just trying to see if there's
anything coming at us. Well, with my gun drawn, and
I'm also holding this jar of acid in my left hand.
Speaker 2: Y'all hear that? Yes?
Speaker 4: Did you hear that?
Speaker 7: Barkley hen listening? I hear that, But he's that he's
that a cat's not it's not a howler. That is
not a howler.
Speaker 2: That sounds very close. What is that then? If it
ain't a howler?
Speaker 4: What is that?
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean? How can you tell?
Speaker 7: And they're a lot lower? Well, I kind of I
don't know what that is. What's word like? The theereal
sounds like a whale?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but I mean like a whale but also
a whale.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 5: What the hell is said?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Hey, look they're coming back.
Speaker 7: Hate you guys get it.
Speaker 5: I had the noise that just starts running.
Speaker 9: You hear that?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Was it louder up there?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I don't know, was it? Yeah?
Speaker 6: You you were further up ahead. Did you see anything
of coffee? You started bolting? I just ran with you.
Speaker 5: I heard it, and I just right, I don't know
any animal. It sounds like that. I don't want to
I want to fucking mess with it. Okay, So right, we.
Speaker 6: Need to go get to Harry. We can't leave him
out by himself.
Speaker 5: What should we do?
Speaker 2: Should we go in?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I call out that.
Speaker 3: Uh, your towards the woods, right right, Harry, Harry.
Speaker 8: And as.
Speaker 2: We now all out Harry, the sound will join you
and swallow your call out for Harry. But now, Harry,
where are you, my dear?
Speaker 5: I'm at the.
Speaker 4: Edge of that would overview in the mining area where
one of the the overview go pro was near the
slash monks.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you fail your you failed your your steals?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 6: I did?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: All right, So you're able to get this camera right,
this go pro. You're making a lot of noise as
you're doing it, and a way through getting this you
do start to hear what everybody else is hearing.
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 2: Do you still go for the camera or do you run?
Speaker 4: How close was I to the camera?
Speaker 2: Oh you're there. You're climbing up because you put it
up on the tree, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I put up like I'm not climbing up the
tree necessarily, but on the tree itself. And yeah, I'm
gonna stance for that camera. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm basically asking, do you put yourself in jeopardy to
get this evidence?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, uh, you grab the camera and
now what do you do? Do you run or do
you wait? Do you freeze and listen?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna look back to where they would have been.
I don't know how right out it is. If it's
bright out at all.
Speaker 2: No, it is now dark. I'd say twilight fell and
it fell fast.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, we did establish these cameras have night visions,
so I'm absolutely gonna aim it where they should be
based on our last conversation, specifically where you and Barkley
and Gus were. I'm gonna look so I can look
and see if there's anything in between.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so you're looking live right now. You're not
planning to see if he came through here. You're first
put point in it, and you're looking go ahead and
roll for me, and you can use your lucky bullshit
on this.
Speaker 4: All right, Oh so this is this is a gamble.
You would say this is a.
Speaker 2: Straight gamble right now because you don't have any magic
and you're by yourself, and all right.
Speaker 4: That's a five percent shift then alright, so it's a
forty five however, Okay, I would like to I do
have some bullshift for this, specifically, once possession with Devil's look,
I can reroll a field chick.
Speaker 2: All right, are you doing it now?
Speaker 4: I would love to do it now, Yes, let's do it.
You're just doing the same role.
Speaker 5: You just can't robusting.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 7: I will, I will. I will give you that.
Speaker 2: That is close enough.
Speaker 7: I will give you that if you will give me
something later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, give me something later.
Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds great. Okay, you succeed. And what that
means is that you see something on this camera scoppro
and you said, it's pointed.
Speaker 4: Where I was aiming to where you and Barkley and
Gus was standing, because that's where I split off from Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say that as you turn this, because
of where this camera was positioned, it will make sense
that as you turn, you're no longer looking at the
cave entrance, you can kind of see where mud was
and where we are right and as you were looking,
you definitely see this figure, not a bear, a humanoid
that is crouched over mud. And they've got a lot
o drape of hair, looks like to you it's covering.
Maybe this is a feminine human wid figure. I mean
it's very small, very tiny, but they are bent over
it looks like they're cradling mud. And that is where
we am today's session.
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